I made these cupcakes a while ago and just didn't think they were quite worthy of blogging about. Not that anything I make is a pastry masterpiece, but some turn out better than others. These tasted really good (or so the kids told us), but I wasn't as happy with the ganache topping or the writing I attempted to do on them. They are my modern take on the Hostess cupcake. I haven't made many filled cupcakes, so I thought I'd try. I wanted to take some treats in for little A's last day at her cousin's school. My original thought was to do writing on the top saying "Bye" and "Farewell" and so on. But, the white chocolate writing pen I had didn't work out as easily as I'd though. So, we ended up with some messy squigglies resembling the Hostess cupcakes of our childhood.
They were yummy chocolate cupcakes made from Martha Stewart's one bowl chocolate cupcake recipe.
With some of them, we hollowed out the center with this special cupcake gutting tool. The others, we simply injected them with the pudding filling. I used an instant vanilla pudding mixture for something more moist vs. using buttercream.
Instead of frosting the cupcakes, the glaze looked so nice and good for writing on (had it worked out better), but I didn't follow the instructions thoroughly and used less heavy cream since it looked too thin. I think it would have been even more smooth and easy to glaze if I'd used the correct amount. They still looked alright and most importantly they tasted good still.
So chocolaty and shiny!
The centers had a nice amount of pudding in them!
Here is my attempt at the Hostess squigglies. Not too bad, but not the beautiful cursive white chocolate messages that I had imagined.
Meringues
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