There are actually 5 tips on making sure your cupcakes are gobbled up in minutes over at Lelo in Nopo, so go check out the post (with more yummy photos), but here are the top 3:
1. Consult with a real pastry chef. Thanks to Purpletwinkie, we came up with a winning combination. And through the wonders of video iChat he held up photos from his books and also demonstrated the technique for hole punching the cupcakes. We'll get to that in a minute. If you don't have your own personal pastry chef to consult with, just copy me.
2. Go for a really strong flavor combination. Word was the birthday girl likes orange flavored desserts, so we chose chocolate + orange. But not too much. There's vanilla in this too.
3. Cupcakes with something stuffed inside of them, like orange bavarian cream, are always tasty. They're the surprise in your bundle of goodness. Punch a hole into your cupcakes with something wide, like the end of your rounded handle salad tongs. See? Press down, but not all the way through. Just enough to create some space for your cream.
What's YOUR #1 cupcake baking tip? Mine would be, um, follow the directions, or else you will get something like the frosting soup I got last time I tried to bake cupcakes (my solution was to put Nutella on as frosting, so that turned out okay!). I thought I knew what the directions said, but it never hurts to check.
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