Daily Creativity: CHOCOLATE!!!!!

Mmmm chocolate…. This will count as yesterday’s daily creativity, I made it on Friday but I couldn’t share it until I shared it with the birthday boy. I made these for my friend Chooch’s birthday, and when I drove to Niagara Falls on Saturday, I left it home. Oops, so I brought it when I met up with him on Sunday. I asked his wife Viv what his favorite cakes were, and she said Chocolate, nothing else. No nuts, no other flavors, just pure unadulterated chocolatey goodness. So that was my mission. I first made a nice fudgey cupcake, I do this by making devil’s food cake and using pumpkin to really get that fudgey texture and taste. Then I made a ganache using ghirardelli’s dark and semisweet, mixing them to come up with a great flavor that isn’t too sweet or too rich. Once that cooled I whipped it so I could pipe it out as roses, my favorite way to frost cupcakes. The roses always look really pretty and they give maximum frosting coverage without a risk of toppling over. Plus the frosting is distributed evenly. Yes, I think about this way too much. The only thing I may have added if I had the time/supplies is  a bit of gold leaf for color. Still I say these tasted even better than they looked.

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