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Eyeball Cupcakes


Unlike some of the awesome bloggers on Slashfood, I am embarrassed to admit that I am not a baker/pastry chef by any means. In fact, the entire process of baking boggles me - from the frustration of measuring to the aggravation of having to use 82 separate bowls (but why do I have to mix the milk and the egg in a separate bowl, can't I just immediately add them to the butter and sugar?), baking and I typically don't see, well...eye to eye (pun definitely intended).

Not believing me when I told her I couldn't bake, my mother, a baking whiz, got me a super-cool cookbook, Claire Crespo's Hey There, Cupcake, filled with almost too-adorable-to-eat cupcake recipes and decorating techniques. So, with a sudden streak of confidence, I poured through the book until I found a recipe that looked doable: the Eyeball Cupcakes. They're rich vanilla cake with a delectable buttercream icing.

Take a look at my unique step-by-step process in the gallery below (unique essentially because I do not own a mixer and I ran out of vanilla extract halfway through, forcing me to call my mom in a panic). Check it out.

Eyeball Cupcakes, Step-by-Step(click thumbnails to view gallery)

The book that started it allStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 4

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Filed Under: Ingredients, Methods
Tags: baking, books, cupcakes, dessert, eyeballs, Hey There, Cupcake, HeyThere,Cupcake, home baking, sugar

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Ellen Slattery

2-05-2008 @6:24PM Ellen Slattery said... Hey all - just a note to say, no, I did not "pour" over my cookbook - in fact, that would be impossible. I did, however, PORE over my cookbook.

Ah, typos. Sorry about that!

Ellen
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