Late last night I got this amazing idea. Why not make my cupcake bites with alcohol? So after researching online off to the store I went. I decided to go with a coconut pineapple rum cake...
The Kahlua and ice cream was for a shake... and I think I'll try french vanilla cake with the french vanilla Kahlua for my next attempt.
I made infused orange rum coconut. The Kahlua was just there ;)
Coconut marinating in Malibu to be toasted as garnish
There's the cake with infused orange rum coconut and pineapple cake.. very moist.. Too moist in fact when it comes to using it for cupcake bites...
Since I made the decision last minute that a rum frosting would be over the top I chose to go with plain ol chocolate frosting- the one frosting I did not have. I refused to go to the store, so I made a dark chocolate frosting...
This is as in progress as you get. Halfway done- just need to dip the tops and garnish...
Here they are!
A close up for ya
And now comes the honesty. Another post that attributes to the title of my blog. I am not impressed. I wanted to throw them all away, but couldn't bear to waste all that alcohol. Ok or the other ingredients either. There are starving people everywhere you know. :) The batter was runny when I poured it in the cake pan so I knew from the get go it was going to be interesting.
My chocolate frosting was also runny, but I was over it so went with it anyway. Unhappy with the texture, I added some cream cheese frosting to the mix too. Yeah- these bad boys are pretty healthy I tell ya. So that last picture up there, are the ones I ended up throwing away.
I will attempt to make alcohol infused bites again I suppose, but will opt for the easier route of box cakes- replacing the water or oil with alcohol maybe. Or maybe I will just continue on with the others on my repertoire.
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2 comments:
how very clever of you! sorry they weren't the super success you were hoping! how fab would it be to get wasted off cake balls. :)
There is a book on amazon called Booze Cakes - I actually almost got it and then my Joy the Baker blogger actually bought it and posted a recipe. I feel this may be right up your alley! One can never have too much booze infused goodness to get through the day!
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