Who doesn't love cupcakes? You get the satisfaction of eating an entire cake without actually scoffing down a full sized cake and wallowing in self pity for the next few days. I work at Kohl's department store and we occasionally sell cookbooks for the Kohl's Cares for Kids charity. So, I spent $5 and bought Crazy About Cupcakes by Krystina Castella.
Anything you can possibly do with a cupcake is in this book. I decided to make lemon cupcakes with strawberry frosting. The combination just sounded amazing in my head. I love lemon anything...if you couldn't guess that seeing as it's part of the name of my blog.
I followed all the instructions and the cupcakes came out normal. Not too wet or too dry. The icing however gave me some issues. The recipe said I could use either fresh or frozen strawberries, and I decided to go with fresh. I don't know which would work better for this kind of thing. If you have any tips, please feel free to fill me in. The recipe also said to have lemon juice handy in case the frosting was too dry, so I was nervous that it was going to come out badly. I definitely had nothing to worry about.
The recipe made waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more frosting than I needed for the 24 cupcakes I made. I didn't end up using most of the frosting either. I put it in my fridge hoping I could end up using it on anything, but in the end I just threw the rest away. Huge waste. The icing also did not need any lemon juice since it was pretty soupy with just using the fresh strawberries. Even though I let my cupcakes cool down before I frosted them, the icing was still wet and sloppy.
Even though the strawberry icing did not turn out the way I expected it to, it still tasted really good. The cupcakes came out really well too. They weren't super sweet and they were nice and moist. I wish they had a little more lemon flavor to them. I'll have to add a little more zest next time. I kept some of them, gave a few to my boyfriend, and brought the rest of them to work. They were gone from work between the time I got there and the time I went on my first break (around 2 hours). They must have been pretty good. The truck team was there though, and they devour anything that people bring in from home.
There's so much I want to do from this cookbook. If you dig cupcakes, I highly recommend this book (just make sure you make less than the recipe calls for with icing unless you're making 60 cupcakes). My family will be coming up mid-May for my commencement ceremony, so I'm thinking I'll make them a little treat from this book. How do root beer float cupcakes sound?
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