Cupcaking (which in the urban dictionary means "flirting")

Orange You Glad...

This is an Orange Chocolate Cupcake recipe I got from the Design Sponge blog . I made these cupcakes for a potluck at work.

Do you ever picture something in your head and when that image is manifested in reality, somehow things went awry during the translation from your mind to reality and what you're actually seeing is just wrong?!? I do that a lot when I get an idea for an outfit, then I go to put it on and instead of looking like I walked out of an Anthropologie store, I look like a Wal-Mart shopper. Well, this is kind of what happened to this cupcake. The recipe was easy and I was confident that my cupcakes were going to turn out just like the picture--- heck, even better! Boy, was I wrong.

Here's the recipe:

1 Box of Chocolate cake mix

      -Substitute the water for orange juice and the oil for Grape Seed Oil

1/2 Orange zest

Frosting:

1 Orange zest

4 Cups of powder sugar

3 tbsp. of orange juice (add as needed)

1 stick of butter (8 tbsp.) - softened

(mix together until smooth) 

This recipe is also quite deceiving as it seems like it would be cheap -- but Grape Seed Oil is expensive! It runs anywhere from $15-20! I got mine on-sale for about $8. 

My dilemma with cupcakes: Some are big, some are small and some are lopsided. I can never figure out just how much to put in each cup! On the right is the frosting that I think tastes kind of weird but then I have been licking my fingers from the frosting all night and now I want to barf.

The recipe says use a pastry bag. I do not own a pastry bag. What I have is this really cheap plastic syringe looking thing that I got for free from my older step sis. I couldn't figure out which tip to use as you can see. Both cupcakes belong on Cake Wrecks.

To salvage the cupcakes, I thought it'd be genius to make my own orange sugar to sprinkle on top of the cupcakes. Of course I didn't have orange food coloring so I had to mix yellow and red. I know what you're thinking, why didn't I just buy orange sprinkles? Well... let's just say there's a method to my madness.

I finally figured out what tip to use, sprinkled the orange sugar along with a bit of orange zest on top.

Roses are Red, Blueberries are Blue (not really they are actually violet)

Did you know there is no such thing as blue food? Here's a more successful cupcake story. I got this recipe from Martha Stewart's cupcake book. I made these a while back for coworkers who devoured them :)

The frosting is just Cool Whip.

Ingredients: Flour, Cake flour (not self-rising), eggs, blueberries, and milk.

Before and After. I really liked these cupcakes. It's kind of like a blueberry muffin but not as dense or heavy. It hink this cupcake and the orange chocolate cupcakes are the perfect spring cupcakes.