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red velvet cupcakes
Thursday, November 2, 2006Red velvet cake originates from the American South, according to my research on the internet. It's actually an ordinary cocoa-flavored cake made more interesting because it's colored red. The white frosting (usually cream cheese frosting or vanilla buttercream frosting) serves to emphasize the redness of the cake.
Why is the cake red in the first place? Legend has it that during the Great Depression, the quality of the cocoa powder available in the Southern states of the US was so bad that it would react with baking soda and turn red after baking.
Whether or not the story is true, I felt the redness of the icing would suit the current All Souls' Day-feeling in the air, because it just looks bloody. (In fact, the first time I baked this several months ago, all the tasters told me to call them blood cupcakes instead 
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extra-moist chocolate cupcakes
These are from a recipe by Nigella Lawson in her How To Become a Domestic Goddess volume. I merely changed the recipe for the chocolate ganache frosting to make it a bit lighter.
These were made with Lindt Dark 70% cacao chocolates, so they're rather expensive to make. Frosted with dark chocolate ganache, and topped with a blue marshmallow flower. Aside from the combination of pink and green, brown and sky blue is the color combination I really can't get over.
I plan to try making these with a lower-cacao-percentage chocolate–perhaps the regular Lindt Dark, or Ritter Sport, which are at about 50-60% cacao. Lower cacao percentages make this cake collapse like anything.
But Nigella was right–this is the moistest chocolate cake, ever.
extra-moist chocolate cupcakes. don't you just love them?
green tea
green tea cupcakes, made with matcha (Japanese green tea powder). Iced with green-tea buttercream, and topped with a pink marshmallow flower.
(Next time, I'll try topping it off with a small pink royal icing or gumpaste flowers–I cant seem to get over the pink-green color combination.)
