So..I am finally starting this food blog! :) It's summer, I have time, and I need to do something productive. I've been meaning to start this up but I always found other reasons to put it off. Not any more! :) alrighty then. here we go.
I couldn't find a good picture of a strawberry cupcake and I keep forgeting to take a picture of the ones i've eaten. Maybe next time :)
I love cupcakes. Especially cupcakes at Crave Cupcakes [http://www.cravecupcakes.com/]. Anyways, my favorite is the strawberry cupcake. It has a base of vanilla cake with and strawberry jam. There's not a lot of jam but you get the sweet, gooey strawberry sensation in your mouth as you bite into this delicious cupcake. I'm not sure if the strawberry jam what they use but that's my guess. Then there's my favorite part: the icing. It's ironic because I sincerely hate icing. I'm not much of a sweet tooth but when it comes to Crave Cupcake's icing, it's a different story. I know it's kind of hypocritical but my goodness, their icing, is like what icing should be like. Again, I'm not quite sure what it is, and I'm pretty sure it's a secret recipe that makes them so great. But the way I would describe is is that it's like a glazed icing. It's somewhat flaky but smooth at the same time. Not too sweet, not too bitter. Regular cupcake icing is always way to sweet for me. But yeah that sums up my love for cupcakes, crave cupcakes. :)
With that in mind, I wanted to try to recreate a strawberry cupcake :) I guess I am a decent cook but when it comes to baking, I can honestly say I am an amateur. Baking from scratch that is* So yester-yesterday, I decided to make a strawberry-jam muffins, in honor of my favorite strawberry cupcake at Crave. I don't know why I decided to make muffins instead of cupcakes - that's probably why I suck at baking.I'm just kidding. I know it's a learning process :) Anyways so here is my first attempt. Oh and all my pictures are not the best quality, I know. I took these pictures from my phone - it's only 2.0 megapixels. But I will use a better camera next time :)
As you can see, I filled it up too much. So sadly, they turned out like this:
:( so much for heart shaped muffins.
So I added some powdered sugar and tried to make it pretty :)
I still had some batter and jam to spare so I made mini muffins. I guess they were more successful than my heart-shaped ones :)
I still had some batter and jam to spare so I made mini muffins. I guess they were more successful than my heart-shaped ones :)
As for the taste, I was not quite satisfied. It was sorta of bland, not as sweet as I expected it to be. I think it was because of the recipe I used was for muffins and not a cupcake but this was a great experiment. I will try a cupcake recipe next time :)
