~HAPPY NEW YEAR~
December 31, 2007 by thejlhlife
Happy New Year everybody!
Jason and I wish everybody a very happy, healthy, prosperous, and yummy year!
I thought I’d share a recipe mistake with you all to show that I can indeed laugh at my culinary disasters and move on…most of the time. At the risk of starting the year off on a bad foot, I will consider this post a purging of any potential bad gastronomic spirits in 2008 
A couple of months ago, there was a cupcake roundup on the Cupcake blog that I wanted to participate in. The point of the round up was to create a cupcake using ingredients and flavors inspired by the autumn season. I figured a lot of people would use pumpkin and apples so I decided to go a different route and use one of my fall favorites, pomegranate.
I went back and forth with Jason on the execution and we finally decided on a chocolate/orange cupcake with fresh pomegranate buttercream frosting. The cake portion was chocolate but with orange zest throughout which I thought would compliment the pomegranate flavorings. It was a good idea and the cupcake certainly looked pretty. Unfortunately, I didn’t submit it because the taste was definitely not Cupcake blog worthy.
The buttercream came out so cloyingly sweet that even Jason couldn’t eat it. I think my ratio of butter to sugar was off 
Even the tart juice from the pomegranate couldn’t save it! The cake also didn’t have nearly enough orange flavor in it for the effect that I wanted. Next time I will have to up the amount of orange zest used or even go with maybe a tiny bit of orange extract.
Oh well. I tossed the frosting before anybody else could be subject to sugar shock. Instead of throwing the cakes away too, Jason told me to freeze them. They came in handy when I wanted to make bourbon balls for Halloween and couldn’t get to the store to get wafers. At least they made a contribution to something that others got to enjoy!
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