Lovin' From the Oven

Chocolate Malt Cupcakes aka Whopper Cupcakes.

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Let me just start off by saying how much I love whoppers. Not the burgers, but the chocolate covered malt ball candy. They’re delicious! It only makes sense to use them in just about every dessert I can think of. The only problem with that is if they are left out or in the wrong temperature, they gradually become stale. Oh well, that doesn’t stop me from baking with them.

The problem with this cupcake was that I couldn’t really get it to be “cupcake material.” The texture was off and they weren’t as light and fluffy. They sank in in the middle and didn’t seem to cook all the way, even though they were. As for the frosting, I’m an impatient girl and although heavy whipping cream always intrigued me, I’d rather not wait ten minutes to fluff up some frosting, only to have it sink back down later on. Despite all the trouble, my brother was the first one to take a taste and said, “Kimmy, out of all the things that you have baked, THESE are my favorite. They’re DELICIOUS!” Now, he has tried basically everything that I have baked and I bake A LOT, so that’s quite a bold statement. Nevertheless, they still turned out pretty and the batter was delicious.

Snickerdoodles.

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How plain can a picture get? I was over at my boyfriend’s house when I remembered to take a picture of the snickerdoodles I baked the night before. It’s such a shame cause I didn’t have any of my scrapbooking supplies to take a pretty picture! I had to elaborate and find myself a flower to add some color to this simple picture (which I’m still not very fond of).

I tried a new snickerdoodle recipe that was definitely more complex and involved more ingredients such as apple cider vinegar and cream cheese. The outcome? Extremely soft, wonderful texture, marvelous tasting cookie. For all the extra work, I still think my original recipe is better and I’ll be sticking to that for a while. It still has yet to be trumped.

Marble/Mix cookies.

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Who says that two different worlds can’t mix peacefully? These cookies remind me almost of ying and yang, they balance each other out beautifully. Half of it is of a chocolate cookie, while the other half is plain vanilla with semisweet morsels tying the two together. Delicious! It’s the first thing I’ve baked since being back at my apt in LA, and I forgot how much work it is to bake without my kitchenaid mixer. I should probably start working out or something, cause mixing the dough made me tired. Oh dearrr.

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