BAKEMANIA (and technical difficulties..)

SO! As previously mentioned in m y last post I was going to be baking this last weekend and yeah. It was. Amazing. More than amazing. It was spectacular. Spent Thursday night doing homework and making cupcakes until the 11 o clock hour and it was the best thing ever.....

I'm trying to get photos onto the post but until I can get onto my laptop this post will be painfully blank, colorless and dull because school computers wont let me do things with pictures and the Blogger app is painfully useless to me right now and just. Ugh. Things. The tortures of life!

But yes these cupcakes. These Strawberry Brownie Beauties that I created just. Wowza. Delicious. There are three cupcakes that I have loved more than any other of the many batches I've made for the shows I've worked on and for other misc. events and these are(for now until better idea comes along) going into the book of Good Food Things(I should make a thing like that..otherwise I'm going to lose all the delicious recipes..)


Going to label all the steps here WITH PICTURES!

STEP 1

You make you mix. and make bloody certain that you've got enough cupcake liners and eggs because too often have I gotten home to the crushing realization that I need to go BACK to the store and just...*Grumbles*

So. Make your mix according to whatever directions you are following whether they be scratch or box(I used box).

Depending on how many cupcakes you want to make you're going to want two boxes for around 55 and one box for about 27.I'm not actually sure how many cupcakes I could have made, I only made 48 and still had enough batter for yet more cupcakes but I'll tell you more about what I did with that later...

STEP 2

Line your little cupcake pans with some awesome little decorative cupcake liners. Depending on where you go you can get the fun and fancy off brand ones for cheaper than normal boring cupcakes. I think they are just a smidge smaller but hardly noticeable. Just saying..for the fun of cupcakes and such...

Spray each cupcake liner with some cooking spray(whatever you use). Do it as individuals not as a big swoosh. it gets better coverage that way.

STEP 3

Put about 1-2 large spoonfull(s) of brownie batter into the bottom of the cupcake. Then once that is complete all but fill your cupcake liners with strawberry. Not too crazy but much more than the normal 2/3 full. You want nice beautiful rounded muffin tops not that crap that just barely makes it over the liner!

STEP 4

The box directions that I used had similar cook times but still not quite the same so I compromised with the highest number on the one that took less time. A little less than halfway and that actually did produce some nice cupcakes(about 20 minutes at 350).

STEP 5

Remove your new cupcake soldiers from their quarters and set them out on a cooling rack or the stove top wherever you put your baking things to chill. Your army has begun. Let them cool for the time of the next batch of cupcakes.

STEP 6

Once you have successfully gotten all of your cupcakes from the oven AND TURNED THE OVEN OFF(....don't forget about that. Parents/other inhabitants of your household will accuse you of trying to burn  down the house) begin frosting them with whatever frosting you will use or be creating.

If you don't have fun decorating things or don't think you have enough frosting to do fun decorating you can always do fun swirls with a butter knife or some handy tool like that. Do what you desire to do and whatever you see fit!


Since out opening night was on Valentine's Day I put little chocolate hearts on these beautiful creatures. But other chocolate pieces(Like Hershey's kisses..) would probably work just as well for non-lovey cupcakes.

STEP 7

Enjoy! These are delicious and always taste what you make I mean really you guys. You can't give people food without at least trying it..at every step of the way..shhhhh......

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

For those of you like me who get sleepy and just there's not quite enough batter for another 12 cupcakes with he strawberry and there's too much of the brownie but if you make more cupcakes you wont have enough  brownie left over for real brownies but you don't want to make brownie cupcakes.....

There's another way!

Just pour all the remaining batter into a small square pan and swirl it together(or layer it whatever you want to do). Bake for about 25 minutes and viola. Brownies! Deliciousness. As for that left over frosting....that's what spoons are for. Or crackers. Am I right or am I right?