I asked to have a party at work because I've been grumpy for like the last 3 months and our new development team raised more money than our fundraising goal so, work party tomorrow! (I am aware that's not a properly constructed sentence). Our fundraising thermometer is captioned "Spring 2010 Mailing" but for some reason Dana (new Willis, to some) thought it said Spicy Holiday and didn't question that. So in her honor, I made these chocolate filled cinnamon cupcakes with chocolate icing and mini churros!
For the icing, I just used the ganache and added 2 1/2 oz. of butter and 3 cups of powdered sugar and in the words of my grandmother, beat it like hell. The ganache in the cupcakes wasn't as solidified as it should have been but I was meeting my mom and Pia for happy hour so I rushed. I have my priorities straight. Zach said the cupcakes were a little dry, but guess what, he's not invited to the party so he can shut the hell up. Actually, he's right, but I kind of like it. It's a denser cake and I think it would be really awesome with some espresso. Also, MINI F-ING CHURROS.
Zach helped with those because I'm scared of frying stuff in oil. It would have been better if I had a star tipped pastry bag instead of a corner-cut sandwich bag but I think they turned out super well and they are really cute and they make me want to say things like "the barrio starts x streets over...." even though I am 2008 miles away from that being appropriate.
**Programming Note: Zach leaves June 18th. I will probably not do any projects until then, when I am supposed to make cupcakes for our Board of Directors.
Did I just get a mini-churro shout-out? I'm going to pretend I did. Also, Mini F-ing Churros! Jealous! I decided that my project was going to be holding a girlcat like a baby for 16 hours, but if churros were involved, I could be swayed otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the new me is keeping up the confusion. Also, I'm so pro those cupcakes it's silly.
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