This is supposed to be a werewolf!
This week, Clara at I <3 Food For Thought gave us a fun Halloween pick, Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes, which we were free to decorate as we pleased. I just bough Hello! Cupcake and thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to make these awesome little werewolves.
However, I am impatient and didn't want to buy Fruit by the Foot for the tongue, didn't feel like making my own pastry bag with a ziplock bag and 359 layers of scotch tape, and waited until the last minute to make these.
Therefore, my cupcake looked like a dragon with boobs.
Also, my CRAPPY camera makes it look like I glossed these over with some type of gunk (gunk!).
You need to check out Clara's page. She's got a cute little setting with a variety of Halloween characters. I know if I weren't so hasty, my cupcakes would have looked nice and pretty. This icing was a bit too soft to ice according to the directions in Hello Cupcake (they just have you take store bought icing - in the words of Cher Horowitz: "AS IF!" - and pipe it onto the cupcake) so I can understand why it flopped. But it still looks like a dragon with boobs.
As for the cupcake, I'm not sure how I felt about it. I shortened the baking time, and they were very light and fluffy. But I will forever compare chocolate cupcakes with Magnolia Bakery, because there is this really strong cocoa flavor to their cupcakes that is just to die for. Dorie's were pretty good, but I don't think it will be my go-to cupcake recipe. Plus, this cupcake really can't compare to that of Georgetown Cupcake (DC) or Magnolia Bakery (NYC). What are their secrets?!
OK, seriously, I can't get over this. It looks like some rabid chihuahua that is frothing at the mouth because it is choking on an M & M. Ugh. Patience is truly a virtue, no?
Check out TWD for some more delicious cupcakes!
That was very creative making a dragon cupcake with boobs! I'm sure the she-dragon tasted good.
Posted by: Heather Peskin | October 31, 2008 at 01:05 AM
Is that Jacob?! Glad to hear I'm not the only person who will be in the movie theater with teenage girls watching Edward and Jacob!
Posted by: Spike. | October 31, 2008 at 09:04 AM
OMG, I love your werewolf! That's way more ambitious than I've ever gotten with cupcakes. Happy Halloween!
Posted by: Karleen | October 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM
I'm sorry, but that is one bad looking cupcake. Don't worry, mine would have looked worse.
I didn't really care for these cupcakes either--too dry!
Posted by: pinkstripes | October 31, 2008 at 07:27 PM
I can see the werewolf, but maybe it's like looking at the clouds, or an ink spot.
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