Cupcakes - Disaster and Triumph / Better Fast Food Choices

So, today I baked cupcakes for one of my co-worker's - 12 chocolate and 12 vanilla. They turned out great - in the end.

I started the morning reading Good Housekeeping and drinking a vanilla chai tea smoothie (I am not supposed to drink this because its made with soy milk and soy protein - but it tasted really good). I would suggest drinking this stuff as a meal replacement - there is 340 calories in one bottle and that is enough for a meal - not a drink.

Check the fast food facts from good housekeeping - and the delicious drink. Keep scrolling for the cupcake drama.

So, here are the first batch of vanilla cupcakes - the batter and the finished product. You can see the disaster. I over-filled the pan and the recipe was bad for cupcakes - way too crumbly. I didn't use a Martha Stewart recipe, so its my own fault. Its OK to laugh.

I obviously had to re-bake the cupcakes - and I didn't take pictures of the new ones without frosting.

The chocolate cakes - both cupcake and frosting - turned out great. The pink butter cream frosting for the new vanilla cupcakes was so sweet - it tasted like a cotton candy nightmare. The original picture is below. I ended up mixing the original pink vanilla butter cream with some left over cream cheese frosting and it was great. Here are the pics of everything. I hope my co-worker's daughter loves them.

This is the cotton candy sweet butter cream - ewww



These are the cupcakes with the butter cream / cream cheese frosting mix. This frosting was great!

 I still need to bake more, but I just have to finish tomorrow - I gotta go to bed now. Good night!