I started to call this post "Happy Accidents", but I'm afraid it wasn't like that. It was a full-blown mistake.
My order from the coffee shop was for German Chocolate Cupcakes. Oh sure, that's easy--"no problem" was, I believe, my response. But do you realize how many recipes there are for German Chocolate Cake? I finally settled on Magnolia Bakery's recipe for the cake, and The Domestic Goddess' recipe for the filling, which can be found here.
I first made the filling, which specifies condensed milk along with the traditional ingredients of egg yolks, coconut and pecans. But I got a little bit distracted and added the German Sweet Chocolate into the pan with the rest of the ingredients! It had already melted into yummy, buttery, chocolatey gooey-ness before I noticed my mistake. It was delicious.
Magnolia's recipe is a little bit tender for cupcakes, and some of the cupcakes fell a bit in the middle, but the result is moist, melt-in-your-mouth goodness.
After the cupcakes cooled, I dipped them in a nice chocolate glaze, which I found on Allrecipes here and added a generous dollop of the goofed-up chocolate filling on top.
Chocolate overload? Yes; but I sent some of the fallen rejects to the office where my husband works, and in the words of one of the staff, it was "better than sex". You be the judge.
11 comments:
oh my god those look amazing!!!
Lobs, thank you!!Your pix make my mouth water all the time...and I'm not even a vegetarian!
Once again, painful salivation. :) And I'm not a big German chocolate fan! I want to do a face plant in that chocolate glaze though! Good work, Granny!
LOL at painful salivation JPee! I'm not a big fan of GC either, but I could eat the glaze with a spoon.
Granny I would love to eat one of your mistakes anytime! They look sticky, gooey, delish!
Thanks HoneyB! They were pretty sticky & gooey. :)
Oh, mom you are always your biggest critic! We are happy to eat your 'mistakes' anytime. Thanks again for the soup and foccacia last night. And everyone loved the chocolate cake at work today!!
That's my little girl!--I'll pay you later ;)
LOL! Now that says a lot especially if it was a guy that said it!
Good job on the save!
~ingrid
Thanks Ingrid.
And yes, it was a guy!
Your on Foodbuzz now YIPPEEEE! Just wanted to let all the Foodbuzzers here know! We have to support creative women like GrannyLooHoo here!
Welcome to Foodbuzz again!
Mistress of Cakes
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