Quick post... Cake flavour related... BRILLIANT!
Guiness cupcake flavour domination is getting a tad alarming! I've more or less had to forsake all other baking to fill orders for these perfect little cakes... And its obvious why thats so. Guiness cupcakes with Guiness buttercream are a thing of absolute beauty!
I experimented with this cupcake for days and finally settled on a combination of flavours and techniques that are, in my humblest of opinions, BLOW-MIND!!! Not to toot my own horn or anything, these babies are amazing! I still can not wrap my mind around the fact that my hands are capable of making them. The cakes themselves are the most perfectly moist, airy, pillowy, delicious things I've ever baked! They're so moist in fact that when I first cut in to a cupcake from the final draft of the recipe I was sure it was under cooked! It was love at first bite though and I'm really happy with how well received they've been.
For our sale last weekend I topped them with Guiness buttercream that is the real Guiness vehicle in the equation. While the cakes are unmistakably Guiness, the buttercream really brings all of the flavours to the fore front and rounds everything out. I think that in future incarnations I will experiment a bit with Swiss meringue by either filling the cakes with the meringue and topping it with buttercream or flip that scenario.
A few quick notes before I get back to work (sorry for the distracted sounding post... sneaking some blog time)... Guiness cupcakes and all of their alcohol inspired cousins are, in actual fact, alcohol free. I flavour them with syrupy reductions of the actual alcohol and in doing that all of the boose is cooked off. Clever! It means that you get a serious quick of an unmistakable flavour with out the side effects of a night of binge drinking... Or eating in this case. I have a customer who is a little worried that when she over indulges on these c-cups she'll feel tipsy but its just not going to happen!
Look out for all my other C-Cup Delinquent incarnations coming soon! Tequila with lime curd filling and salted buttercream, Creme de Cassis, Puncheon Rum, Red Wine... I intend to spend many hours experimenting my way threw numerous bottles of booze!
Again... Apologise for the rushed nature of this entry!
