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!
SHUT UP! That is not a werewolf. OMG. That is hysterical. Love it.
Posted by: Sugar Betty | October 28, 2008 at 08:42 PM
Wait . . dragon?! HAHA!
Posted by: Sugar Betty | October 28, 2008 at 08:43 PM
I can definitely see the Werewolf. I didn't see the dragon with boobs until you pointed it out! :o)
Posted by: pamela | October 28, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Oh, SNAP. We were on the same wavelength. I almost made these but couldn't justify paying for Fruit Roll-ups. Check out those teeth! My nephews would freak.
Posted by: Rebecca | October 28, 2008 at 10:35 PM
First, I'm glad you are feeling better. Second, please remember that even dragons with boobs have a place in this world.
This is like one of those optical illusions. "Which do you see? A werewolf or a dragon with boobs?"
I saw the werewolf until you forced me to see something I never expected to see in a cupcake!
Posted by: Matt | October 28, 2008 at 10:37 PM
As always, you make me laugh, Teanna! Great attempt at the werewolf. But it does look kind of like a chihuahua. =)
Posted by: Di | October 29, 2008 at 08:42 AM
Ciao Teanna thank you ! well, your cupcakes are SCARY !!!
Posted by: natalia | October 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Great pumpkin and cupcakes.
Ulrike from Küchenlatein
Posted by: Ulrike | October 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Dragon boobs or not it's still a cupcake I'd eat!
Posted by: April B | October 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Hey, I say you get an A for effort. I was thinking it looked like a werewolf, honestly!
Posted by: Jacque | October 29, 2008 at 01:03 PM
Happy to hear you are feeling better this week. And, the best part is that the humor survived the illness...laughed at your post, so much fun. And the little cupcake is really very very cute.
Posted by: Kayte | October 29, 2008 at 08:41 PM
A dragon with boobs is scary for Halloween too! ;)
Posted by: Shari | October 29, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Hee hee! Well in the words of Cher Horowitz, "I have to give you snaps" for such inventive decorating. And I definitely see the werewolf...and if he's a little chesty, so be it!
Posted by: Elizabeth - Cake or Death? | October 30, 2008 at 02:00 AM
OMG - I can't stop laughing. Too too funny. I totally cannot see a dragon with boobs. I'm sure they were delicious. At least you gave it a good try - mine look like they have orange blobs on top! Glad you are feeling better.
Posted by: peggy | October 30, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Funny cupcakes! You could have a whole menagerie at this rate -- teddy bears, kitties, and more. At least you have a sense of humor about it all.
Posted by: Judy (Judy's Gross Eats) | October 30, 2008 at 03:29 PM
If you want the Magnolia Bakery recipes, go to www.recipelink.com, and type in "Magnolia Bakery recipes". A bunch of them pop up!
Anyhoo - at least it isn't wonky like my brain!!
Posted by: Megan | October 30, 2008 at 03:42 PM
Too funny, girl! My 10 and 8 yr olds were behind me when I stopped by your site and , in unison, went "what the heck is that?" I immediately said werewolf - then they saw it :-)
Posted by: Laura | October 30, 2008 at 06:08 PM
You have me rolling on the floor (well, not really, but almost...) I'm not sure what that cupcake looks like, but it's certainly scary! Strange mutant cupcakes, watch out!
(If you can't make 'em pretty, make 'em funny instead...not a bad motto, don't you think?)
Posted by: Barbara | October 30, 2008 at 07:06 PM
what creative cupcakes! thanks for commenting on my blog! i'm going to add you to my blog list!
Posted by: michelle aetonu | October 30, 2008 at 07:55 PM
If there are two things I love, they are dragons and the female anatomy! Rock on, T. Glad you're feeling better and back to TWDing.
Posted by: Mike | October 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM