Chocolate Cupcakes or Chocolate Muffins
29 Oct
Okay, I have to explain myself. I am prone to (what I think are ) logical assumptions. Because the beautiful photograph of the Chocolate Chunk Muffins was a few pages away from last weeks featured attraction, I naturally proceeded to the muffins. Instead of the Chocolate Cupcakes. Oops! Please tell me someone else almost thought the same thing??? So, as it goes I prepared, mise en place, the ingredients for the Chocolate Chunk Muffins. In my mode of logical assumptions, I thought, ah well, it might be interesting to compare the two. [SinglePic not found]
The Chocolate Chunk Muffins were pretty darn good, to quantify though, how could you not like them? They have wonderful chocolate chunks in them. Shhhh, don’t tell anyone that I made a mistake and made them anyway. Just a note to self to enjoy them sometime too. Dorie’s muffins are simple and go together quickly. The warm chocolatey muffins were enjoyed this morning by a couple of friends who dropped by with a Boo Wish. Its the season, you know! They liked them and said they would be good as mini’s for a brunch or anytime of day. Nice to have tasters magically appear, huh? I like that too. Even better the next day.
Tuesdays with Dorie’s site has a forum for comments on recipes in progress. Members of TWD have the opportunity to share their opinions and questions. That being said, this particular recipe was quite provoking. There was much discussion, lots of ideas about how to improve the finished cupcake to suit the individual. I don’t know about you, call me silly, but I just needed to see for myself. One needs a basis for comparison and of course there is always a personal preference. I followed the recipe. Even though I was informed of varying ingredients thought to change the outcome. I know, why you ask? I don’t know, maybe because I was always the member of the family who actually read the instructions for the toys the children received at Christmas time. Go figure. Being a girl, I also learned that asking for directions proved to be a more efficient use of time.
The Chocolate – Chocolate Cupcakes from Dorie Greenspan’s, Baking From My Home to Yours, was selected by Clara from I Heart Food 4 Thought. Thank you so much for selecting a timely and fun chocolate recipe. Stop by her place and take a peek at her Boo-Cakes. They are adorable. You can tell she had a blast being creative. I love chocolate and the recipes I have baked so far all allow for the chocolate of your choice. Neat huh? I like dark chocolate. I think these would go very well with icecream or with filling. For those of us who are accustomed to lots of sugary icing either on our cupcakes or on our layered cakes, these may be a little anti-climatic. I missed the icing, honestly. What I learned? Maybe to bake them just a little between making sure they are done enough not to sink and not too done so that they are dry. Where is that you say? Well….maybe with a few crumbs on that toothpick you poked in the middle. Then, I think I would follow the lead of the other wonderful bakers at TWD who adorned their cupcakes with real cream cheese or buttercream icing. [SinglePic not found][singlepic id="72" w="320" h="240" mode="" float="center" ]
If you would like to see the recipe for this weeks Chocolate – Chocolate Cupcakes click on here
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Love your display! Very classy! I won’t tell anyone that you made the muffins!!
I love that final photo – too pretty. And about baking the muffins… You’ll just have to destroy the evidence, won’t you?
Love the presentation with the candy corn. Is there any candy that says Halloween better?
You made the chocolate muffins too? That is something my absentminded self would totally do! HAHA But nothing wrong with double the chocolate right? Love that last photo. I am kind of a candy corn freak… Glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks for baking with me this week!
Clara @ iheartfood4thought
I love our photo of the muffins nestled in the candy corn. I thought of using the candy corn too, but all I saw were low fat ones which didn’t look like any candy corn I’m used to buying. Your muffins look wonderful.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the picture of your mini cupcake in the candy corn! That’s hilarious that you made the muffins first — I would do that. Well, they sound like they were great, anyway! And you had individual chocolatey treats for breakfast, lunch and dinner in your house!
Hmm, the chocolate muffins sound even better than the cupcakes! Good job with the double.
Nancy
thanks for the side by side review
they look great – tell corbin these photos are really nice too
Your cupcake looks so cute buried in candy corn in that glass!
Wow, lots of chocolate goodness in your house this week! I wish I’d dropped by, too!
I could have sworn I left you a comment last Tuesday and yet, here we are and I don’t see it! I must be having lapses of memory or something. I love your photo of the muffin in the candy corn. I also love your comparison of the muffins and the cupcakes. I really enjoyed these cupcakes.
I almost made the muffins too!
Your cupcakes look amazing – love your photos!
Your photos are great and the cupcakes look so elegant in those paper cups. When I make cupcakes, they do NOT look that nice!
Those look perfect for any chocolate craving. Mmmm, they turned out perfect!
What a cute little idea for your cupcakes! I really enjoy reading your blog!
They look so cute.
You are awesome!!! Those look/sound/smell… delicious!!! Wish I were a taster for you!!! You and Corbin make quite a team!!! Love you all!