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White Chocolate Cake


Posted the20/12/2009 By What's for Dinner (Visit website)




December's cake was a White Chocolate Cake. i decided to turn it into cupcakes and to incorporate it into my Christmas baking. Today just happened to be the day of one of my family's Christmas get-togethers, so I made the cupcakes last night and let them chill overnight for today.

I must day I've been somewhat disappointed with these recipes from Southern Cakes. I know I am not the most experienced or skilled baker around, but I've made quite a few cakes in my day and these recipes just seem to never turn out how I want them to. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I've had problems with all three cakes.


With this one, I thought turning it into cupcakes wouldn't be too hard, but the batter spilled out of the cupcakes tins and stuck to the muffin papers. As for the icing, I had visions of a super white, fluffy, buttercream-type icing. Instead I ended up with a somewhat thin icing that tasted mostly like cream cheese and very little like white chocolate and that hardens up. Not fluffy at all. And while I obsessivley adore cream cheese icing I don't really think it complements the white chocolate. White chocolate is a subtle flavor and it's kind of hidden by the cream cheese. Listen to me, I sound like a cookbook editor or something. What do I know? :)


While I was making these cupcakes I got pretty frustrated, but in the end I'm happy with the way they turned out and they taste pretty good (like I said I love cream cheese icing). I tried piping the icing onto some of them, but then it just got too soft and I was too frustrated, so I just spread the rest on. I had to immediately put them in the fridge because the icing was drooping everywhere.


The next morning I sprinkled them with green and red sugar. Originally I was going to put Christmas M&M's on them, but that was when I thought the icing was going to be thick and fluffy, not hard and thin. Nonetheless, I was pleasantly surprised with the end product. I didin't even try to decorate them with a winter theme, but incidentally I think some of the drooping icing ended up looking like snow-covered rooftops.

I hope January's red-velvet is a more rewarding experience!


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