ABC Bakers: Blender Emergency cupcakes

This is worrying! I am not even close to the deadline, or maybe I’m just early for the next? Yes, let’s keep it at that.
It is just that life is happening and sometimes life is happening quite forcefully. Oh well.

One could wish cupcakes could cure each and every bump in the road, even the biggest ones. Alas I don’t think they do and … I’m afraid these wouldn’t come even close!

Not sure what’s wrong with them because I read my fellow ABC bakers’ stories and they were happy. Well the choco-monster boys in my house will eat anything chocolate and they did initially. The next day four cupcakes were still standing and wouldn’t be touched. A sure sign. Above and below are pictures of the very first batch, used a minty buttercream frosting with a tiny chocolate flavoured buttercream tip on top.

{mad piping skills!}

Made this recipe three times. First time I used Dutched cocoa, using a whisk and a bowl, long time ago so I can’t remember precisely what I did, I do remember we weren’t fond of it but I credited that to the hurry in which I made them at the time. Second batch I tried adding a little lemon juice to make up for the Dutch processed cocoa. Third batch was made using baking powder instead of baking soda to make up for the Dutch processed cocoa and dutifully used the blender as per the recipe.

We all missed creaminess, soft crumb and depth of flavour, instead  we found dense, tight crumbed and moist? almost wet cake. I admit that I probably underbaked the last batch hence the lava center.

Not one to repeat for us. Up to the next!