TWD: Chocolate-Chocolate Cupcakes

Continuing with recipes for Tuesdays with Dorie that aren't taxing to my baking mojo, Clara of I♥food4thought chose Chocolate-Chocolate Cupcakes. Seriously Clara...do you hate my hips? Really???

Despite my best intentions to start getting myself back into exercise (i.e. Wii Fit) and eating better (i.e. not eating cupcakes), it was a major FAIL for me this week. Whether it was the donuts or the cupcakes, I can't saw which tiped the scale more. Next week...next week I will take more of this to work! Well, to be honest, most of the cupcakes went to work but a few were sacrificed in the attempted icing.

The cupcakes themselves went just fine. I read the P&Q section at Tuesdays with Dorie and many seemed to dry cupcakes and/or cupcakes that didn't rise as much as expected. Some also said they weren't very chocolatey. To get better chocolate flavor, I did a mixture of milk and semisweet melted chocolate as well as adding in a handful of semisweet chips to the batter. To help combat the dryness more, I pulled them out at 20 minutes instead of going to 22 as suggested. Voila! The cupcakes were super moist!

Now on to the icing. I wanted to decorate these for Halloween so I went with white chocolate for the ganache and tinted it orange. For once, my white chocolate seemed to cooperate. It was the cupcakes that didn't want to cooperate. As soon as I tried to dip and swirl, the tops of the cupcakes fell off. After two such attempts, I said forget it. The cupcakes alone were very tasty and the guys at work would like them no matter if there was no icing (they're not really picky). Plus, I stuck some candy corn into the center of a few before baking and on top. The one I tried was delicious. Perhaps I should have done all that way? hmmm...

I did put a little on one of the broken cupcakes so you could see that I did make it but the picture is blurry obviously. The icing does look like a ghost/demon thing doesn't it? Kinda creepy.

I think these cupcakes would be good with icing/frosting/ganache whatever you want to call it. Some day I might come back and try it but for now...my hips say no more!!!

To see this weeks recipe, buy the book for yourself! Or...check out Clara's blog! For more cupcakes (some decorated for Halloween), head to the TWD blogroll here!

Come back next week for some rugelach. I've never made or had rugelach before so I am eager to try it. See you then!

Oh and for those who wondered where Charlie was this week, I tried to be a good mommy and not flaunt the chocolate in front of him but he pushed his way next to me so he could get a look at the cupcake mommy was so happy about. Don't worry...he didn't get a bite!