Yesterday I saw a lovely picture of my cousin’s cupcakes, which is a tie dye vanilla cupcakes. Being me, I wanted to try as well. I looked up at my cabinet and saw blue, pink, yellow, and purple food coloring. Yay!
Now, as much as I love a good vanilla cake, I wanted to try something different. Again, I raided my cabinet and found a lemon essence. Why not make a lemon vanilla cake? It’s psychedelically good!!
So today is my best friend birthday, and I wanted to make something special for her. I decided to bake a double chocolate cupcake with vanilla bean buttercream frosting.
For the cake, I used a slightly different recipe from this one.
I reduced the Cocoa Powder and add some chocolate chips. This time i half cheated on the buttercream. I use a buttercream mix and whisk it with fresh vanilla pods. Don’t you just love the tiny black dots?
Ingredients:
(makes enough dough for one 9 or 10 inch double crust pie)
for the apple filling :
Cooking DJ 