Happy Mother's Day! The above cupcakes are the aforementioned Pistachio Rosewater cupcakes...with one small change. I couldn't find rosewater! I've seen it a few times at my regular grocery store, but of course when I want to buy some, they don't have it. Oh well. They turned out great anyway. And I think these are the cutest cupcakes I've ever made.
I've made Matt a vegan cupcake believer. He begged me to make not one but two batches yesterday. He helped, of course. Above is the Golden Vanilla Cupcakes to which I added lemon extract and used the glaze from Sexy Lowfat Vanilla Cupcakes and topped it all off with a strawberry.
Now we have Your Basic Chocolate Cupcake (with a touch of coffee) and Vanilla Buttercream with coffee. We made some French press coffee just for these cupcakes, set aside in the freezer to get nice and chilled. When the time came to make the frosting, I added the cold coffee (just 1/4 cup) to frosting, and the thick, fluffy frosting turned completely liquid! The only thing I can think of is that the coffee had just a tiny bit of heat left in it still and was enough to complely turn the frosting into mush. With some more powdered sugar, we were able to salvage it into something spreadable, if not pipe-able. It tasted good, at least.
Happy Mother's Day! The above cupcakes are the aforementioned Pistachio Rosewater cupcakes...with one small change. I couldn't find rosewater! I've seen it a few times at my regular grocery store, but of course when I want to buy some, they don't have it. Oh well. They turned out great anyway. And I think these are the cutest cupcakes I've ever made. 
I've made Matt a vegan cupcake believer. He begged me to make not one but two batches yesterday. He helped, of course. Above is the Golden Vanilla Cupcakes to which I added lemon extract and used the glaze from Sexy Lowfat Vanilla Cupcakes and topped it all off with a strawberry.
Now we have Your Basic Chocolate Cupcake (with a touch of coffee) and Vanilla Buttercream with coffee. We made some French press coffee just for these cupcakes, set aside in the freezer to get nice and chilled. When the time came to make the frosting, I added the cold coffee (just 1/4 cup) to frosting, and the thick, fluffy frosting turned completely liquid! The only thing I can think of is that the coffee had just a tiny bit of heat left in it still and was enough to complely turn the frosting into mush. With some more powdered sugar, we were able to salvage it into something spreadable, if not pipe-able. It tasted good, at least.
6 comments:
Beggars can be choosers - and I chose wisely - delicious choices Matt!!! The coffee was the perfect amount flavor-wise, just didn't mix well for some reason. Was it really the heat? Strange.
The straweberry cupacake photo looks great!
Thanks again for more cupcakes, cupcake.
I like to think the love we put into these cupcakes had some small part in the declaration of love by the two people we were able to share these with. (Just don't tell anyone we bickered like hell while making these.) :)
we did not bicker!!!!
oh, our cupcakes totally had something to do with that. ;) I should have wrote that on the blog..."these cupcakes were the reason a certain two people got engaged.." and it wasn't us!! so jealous...so, so jealous...
Where's Roxy?
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