Why Yes, I Know a Little German
Posted in Food Porn | By The Arbiter |
I don’t remember why I decided to make German chocolate cupcakes. The cake part was easy enough. Caramelizing condensed milk for the frosting takes at least an hour, so I tried a shortcut using the microwave. This seemed to work, but when I added the chopped pecans and shredded coconut, the mixture quickly turned into clumpy, crumbly gorp. Delicious, but would not stick to the cupcakes. Luckily, I had some homemade caramel stashed in the fridge (from the banana cream pie ala Tartine). I molded the gorp into perfectly-sized disks by pressing it into the same mini muffin tins I’d used to make the cupcakes, then adhered the disks to the cupcakes with a dollop of caramel. The result was so lovely I decided to pretend I meant it that way all along.
(photos courtesy Kimmie Sue, click to embiggen)
March 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
If you’re going to put things like this up with pictures, please make sure that I somehow had an opportunity to be involved in the sampling of said photographed items. In this case, as you’ve guessed, I was not so involved, and am thus now completely bummed. Please make them again, and this time, be sure I get one! xo
April 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I am so fucking good with a camera.
Love,
The Donk