Ugh, wheatworms? That must be fancy talk for earthworms!
Ummm, soooo, yeah. My latest food experiment. I modified an existing recipe for chocolate cupcakes, and tried out the modifications today.
Applejack’s Whoopsie Cupcakes
Yield: ~16 cupcakes
Ingredients:
For Cupcakes:
* 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 3 tablespoons butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1/2 cup sour (lemon juice)
* 1/2 cup soda (cola)
* 1/2 cup potato chips, crushed (plus some reserved for frosting)
* 1/4 cup wheatworms (gummi worms, cut into thirds, or mini gummi worms) (plus some reserved for frosting)
For Frosting:
* One package prepared white cake frosting
* Food Coloring
* Shredded sweetened coconut (to make it look 'hairy')
Directions:
1.) Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt. Set aside.
2.) In a large bowl (an electric mixer is best), mix together the butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture alternately with the lemon juice and soda; beat well.
3.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
4.) Crush potato chips with a rolling pin until you have 1/2 a cup; cut each individual gummi worm into thirds until you have 1/4 a cup. (If using mini-gummi worms, there is no need to cut them.) Stir the chips and worms into the batter.
5.) Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full with the batter.
6.) Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool completely.
WARNING -- Beware molten hot gummi worms. Do not eat until cupcakes have completely cooled, the gummi worms will be hotter than the rest of the cupcake. Also, keep in mind when poking with a tooth pick, you might hit a gummi worm instead of cupcake.
7.) To prepare frosting, mix ? drops of ? food coloring with ? frosting, until the color is a light grey. Stir in ? crushed potato chips and ? shredded coconut and frost each cupcake liberally. Insert the gummi worm segments (or mini gummi worms) into the frosted cupcakes so that it appears pieces of worm are poking out of the cupcakes. (I haven't finished writing this part of the recipe; but I think grey is made with red & blue food coloring with a little yellow added)
Notes: Yeah, ok, they were originally muffins, not cupcakes, and they weren't necessarily chocolate. But cupcakes are more awesome than muffins, and chocolate is just awesome in general.
Also, yes, originally it was a 'cup of sour' but I . . . couldn't . . . bring myself to put that much in. XD
So I baked some of the cupcakes (I had to bake them for, like, 25 freaking minutes, actually, but my oven runs too cool) and taste-tested it. I have to admit I was kind of hoping for something palatable. I mean, lemon and chocolate? That actually sounds nice! And potato chips in a cupcake might actually be kind of tasty!
Alas, the end result wasn't tasty. As I dumped the lemon juice in, I suspected that would be the lethal ingredient, anyway. It wasn't too sour, though, actually, but the combination of the chocolate and the lemon just didn't taste right. Just sort of weird tasting is all. Also, you couldn't taste the potato chips in the cupcakes at all, they were overwhelmed, all they did was stick to your teeth in a sort of annoying way. XD
As you can see, I had planned on really cool frosting to make the cupcakes look horrible and everything, but I don't know if I should bother frosting the cupcakes at this point. :P
I'm open to ideas how to improve the taste of the recipe while staying true to the idea of it! If such a thing is possible, which I realize it might not be! XD
Applejack’s Whoopsie Cupcakes
Yield: ~16 cupcakes
Ingredients:
For Cupcakes:
* 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 3 tablespoons butter, softened
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1/2 cup sour (lemon juice)
* 1/2 cup soda (cola)
* 1/2 cup potato chips, crushed (plus some reserved for frosting)
* 1/4 cup wheatworms (gummi worms, cut into thirds, or mini gummi worms) (plus some reserved for frosting)
For Frosting:
* One package prepared white cake frosting
* Food Coloring
* Shredded sweetened coconut (to make it look 'hairy')
Directions:
1.) Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt. Set aside.
2.) In a large bowl (an electric mixer is best), mix together the butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture alternately with the lemon juice and soda; beat well.
3.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
4.) Crush potato chips with a rolling pin until you have 1/2 a cup; cut each individual gummi worm into thirds until you have 1/4 a cup. (If using mini-gummi worms, there is no need to cut them.) Stir the chips and worms into the batter.
5.) Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full with the batter.
6.) Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool completely.
WARNING -- Beware molten hot gummi worms. Do not eat until cupcakes have completely cooled, the gummi worms will be hotter than the rest of the cupcake. Also, keep in mind when poking with a tooth pick, you might hit a gummi worm instead of cupcake.
7.) To prepare frosting, mix ? drops of ? food coloring with ? frosting, until the color is a light grey. Stir in ? crushed potato chips and ? shredded coconut and frost each cupcake liberally. Insert the gummi worm segments (or mini gummi worms) into the frosted cupcakes so that it appears pieces of worm are poking out of the cupcakes. (I haven't finished writing this part of the recipe; but I think grey is made with red & blue food coloring with a little yellow added)
Notes: Yeah, ok, they were originally muffins, not cupcakes, and they weren't necessarily chocolate. But cupcakes are more awesome than muffins, and chocolate is just awesome in general.
Also, yes, originally it was a 'cup of sour' but I . . . couldn't . . . bring myself to put that much in. XD
So I baked some of the cupcakes (I had to bake them for, like, 25 freaking minutes, actually, but my oven runs too cool) and taste-tested it. I have to admit I was kind of hoping for something palatable. I mean, lemon and chocolate? That actually sounds nice! And potato chips in a cupcake might actually be kind of tasty!
Alas, the end result wasn't tasty. As I dumped the lemon juice in, I suspected that would be the lethal ingredient, anyway. It wasn't too sour, though, actually, but the combination of the chocolate and the lemon just didn't taste right. Just sort of weird tasting is all. Also, you couldn't taste the potato chips in the cupcakes at all, they were overwhelmed, all they did was stick to your teeth in a sort of annoying way. XD
As you can see, I had planned on really cool frosting to make the cupcakes look horrible and everything, but I don't know if I should bother frosting the cupcakes at this point. :P
I'm open to ideas how to improve the taste of the recipe while staying true to the idea of it! If such a thing is possible, which I realize it might not be! XD