Leila Shea Christensen » friends http://leilachristensen.com if you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never ever have enough Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 At Least The Cupcakes Were Good http://leilachristensen.com/2009/10/at-least-the-cupcakes-were-good/ http://leilachristensen.com/2009/10/at-least-the-cupcakes-were-good/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:26 +0000 Leila http://leilachristensen.com/?p=351 cupcakesI watched the BYU-TCU football game this past weekend. For a BYU fan, that was a pretty brutal game. I don’t even want to think about it. The one part I did like came in the form of festive cupcakes – I made white cupcakes filled with white chocolate mousse, topped with vanilla frosting. DELICIOUS. (I may be biased – I made them after all – but I make a pretty good cupcake. And these were good. Trust me.)  Here’s how I did it:

Cupcakes: a white cake mix.  with fresh eggs. made according to the box. (SUPER easy.)

White Chocolate Mousse: heavy whipping cream, whipped up. while whipping, add one bar of melted white chocolate – but make sure that the chocolate is mostly cool while you pour it in, or it’s going to be gross.

Frosting: 1 bag (2 lbs) powdered sugar, 2 cubs (1 cup) softened butter, about 1/4 cup water, 2 tsp vanilla.  Mix until fluffy.

Assemble: Cut a hole out of the center of the cupcake, but don’t go so far that you cut out the bottom.  Fill it with white chocolate  mousse.  Top with frosting – cover up the hole where the mousse is sticking out.

Finally, eat the pain away!  That’s right, if you eat enough cupcakes, you just might forget how BYU played. (Or rather, how they didn’t play.)

*PS – sorry for the picture quality – the lighting wasn’t fantastic & there’s no flash on the iPhone.

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