Caramel Cupcakes.. hmmm...

I was bound to fail sooner or later. And as hard as it is for me to do, I will share

my most recent failure.

A coworker had her birthday last Wednesday, but wasn't in the office due to a training. So I planned to make her some cupcakes and bring them on Friday as a treat for everybody. She likes the combo of chocolate and caramel. Easy enough, right? Well, I was sick of making chocolate cupcakes. I really wanted to try Martha's buttermilk cupcakes.. selfish, yes. So I decided to make those cupcakes with a caramel frosting and a chocolate drizzle (that one was for you, Jodie).

The cupcakes came out great.. so YUM. But then I cheated on the frosting and made it with brown sugar. Still tasted like caramel, but by the end when I needed to add powdered sugar, I knew I was in trouble. Sugar on sugar.. halp. It wasn't easy to spread and didn't come out very pretty.. not only that, it was SO SWEET. The kind of sweet that hurts your teeth. Meh. Then I moved on to the chocolate drrrizzzzzzlle and whoops.. I made something that looked like it belonged in Willy Wonka's chocolate river. So soupy. I had no time or patience remaining, so I just went with it. As I looked down at my caramel chocolate nightmare completely depressed, Jane Fondant suddenly came to the rescue. I rolled out some previously dyed hot pink fondant and cut out little hearts. I imprinted a "T," "I," "N," and "A" on four, and called it a night.

Next morning, when the fondant was hard enough, I put them on the cupcakes. I brought them into work and learned Tina decided to take the day off to go to NYC last minute. HAAAAA! Then I opened up my carrier to find the fondant melted down into sad droopy hearts. One coworker said they looked fine, "but.. uh.. maybe you should take off the ones with letters that spell Tina.."

How sad! How hilarious! .... this is usually how one of my fails goes! Do not fret, there will be plenty more...

And oh yeah, the coworkers devoured them; a couple mentioned they were great with coffee due to the sweet factor.

:)