retire to dessert

happy retirement dad! i made these 'golf inspired' cupcakes for a party at Cirillo's Culinary Academy on Dundas West. it was a great night and the cupcakes went down really well! there were three flavors; the 19th hole (chocolate stout cake with chocolate whiskey ganache and chocolate whiskey frosting), it's a gimme (vanilla cake with raspberry curd swirl and vanilla swiss meringue buttercream with raspberry curd drizzle), and sand trap (chocolate stout cake with caramel frosting). there wasn't too much that screamed 'golf' about the flavours, just the names :) 

xo

Lá Fhéile Pádraig!

i hope that says what i think it does :) happy st. patrick's day everyone!

to celebrate i made some seriously drunken cupcakes. they are chocolate stout (guiness) cupcakes with bailey's chocolate ganache filling and bailey's butter cream frosting and you can taste the alcohol! haha

when you make filled cupcakes the centre of the cake must be removed before you can pipe in the filling and then you replace just enough to cover the top above the filling. once you have repeated this 24 times there is a bit of cake left over from the middle of each cupcake. in the spirit of not wasting anything that has been soaked in spirit ;) i made a few cake pops out of the left over cake. this is easy and delicious, just take some crumbled cake and mix it with frosting or in this case the extra ganache, and then roll into even sized pops. melt some chocolate or melting discs and dip the pops in and top with any sprinkles or decorations and put in the freezer for a few minutes just to solidify. and then you have delicious bite sized cake pops!