Tuesday was cupcake baking day. Now I love to cook, I'm actually a darn good cook ~ baking is another thing. I don't always LOVE to bake. I love baked goods, just not necessarily doing the baking. I volunteered to bring cupcakes to a field trip my 8th grader was going on. That usually means baking, since I don't like to bring store bought when I say I"m going to bring baked goods, so I got my recipes together. Red Velvet, chocolate and spice. Then came the creative part. Red Velvet with cherry twizzlers, cream cheese frosting, chocolate with peanut butter cups and peanut butter frosting, and spice with bacon and brown sugar maple frosting. The bacon maple is a complete rip off of my favorite Portland Doughnut shop Voo Doo doughnuts bacon maple bar. It's good. I used bacon fat and vegetable oil in the cake and whipped minced bacon into the frosting, then sprinkled with minced bacon. Oh my tasty!
It took me all dang day, which is why I don't like to bake. I only have a couple of muffin tins and one oven so it's one batch at a time, then you have to let them cool before you frost them. They take up so much room too. My kitchen still has little remnants of cupcakeporklooza laying around, I'll get it all cleaned up sooner or later as I begin my Chicken Pot Piepolooza tonight. 32 Chicken pot pies to deliver tomorrow afternoon. For some reason that just does not seem as daunting to me as baking 72 little cupcakes.. What is wrong with me?
Back to the pork ~ I love pork! I love bacon. I love bacon in sweets, dipped in chocolate, link sausage dipped in maple syrup ~ which is why the maple bacon bar/spiced maple bacon cupcake works so dang well.
I'm so happy when I can play with my food and it still tastes good.
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