I made these lovely chocolate cupcakes for a sweet little girl's birthday.
Cupcakes are such comfort food. I will never get sick of them! :) No matter how chic the presentation is, behind the fanciful designs and colourful (that include some dreadful artificially-coloured ones) cream, it represents what we love most as a child - a cute cake, complete with frosting, petite and neat enough to fit into our hands yet big enough to satisfy the sweet tooth.
These cakes were made with my favourite Valrhona cocoa powder and vegetable oil which yielded wonderfully moist but fluffy crumb. I topped it with ganache and a little marzipan bee.
These are Nutella cupcakes. Basically, a buttery vanilla cake filled with oozy Nutella and topped with vanilla bean-dotted buttercream and crunchy Valrhona chocolate beads. Yum!
The pink one peeping out from the top right hand corner is a raspberry cupcake. I personally love love love this one as the pink raspberry buttercream balances the rich cake PERFECTLY.
Here's another picture. Don't you just love the vibrant pink cream, tinted only by raspberry puree and absolutely nothing else!
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