Maple cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache frosting

Not some recipe post though. Made these cupcakes while staying home. Actually for my whole holiday, besides going out, I'd stay home and bake. I think I baked too much . Since they are not minicupcakes and I do not have many people at home, leftovers are often fed to the garbage chute. Such a waste right? Normal yield usually produces 12 cupcakes and for me I will always get 14 cupcakes or more. Is it something good or bad?

I can say my cupcakes do not taste bad . Its just that I am very particular about its freshness, so if it's not eaten within 2 days , I feel that the even the best cupcake cannot be on par with an average-just-out-of-the-oven cupcake.


Of course, what got me started with my obsessive endeavour of baking cupcakes? Food porn ! What else? Within this holiday, I think I bought 3 to 4 baking books, mainly on baking cupcakes. Not those thin below 10 bucks ones, because I feel that those usually do not contain challenging recipes. I prefer to bake some unique ones or those with more sophisticated steps, it's like if I am already baking might as well put in more effort and work longer on them.



So pardon my very poor attempt of creating a food porn post. (:

Fine brown sugar.

This vanilla essence is sure costly.

Speaking of which I thought that those vanilla essence in supermarkets are really vanilla essence . In fact, THEY ARE NOT! They contain flavourings. Real ones are more expensive,but worth every crumb of the penny.

Oh yea , not forgetting these maple pecan cupcakes which I baked much earlier on....



 




Won't be blogging that soon, cause yea I am back in Melbourne without my camera :(

Byess



P.S. Did not lug my camera over here as I figured that there is probably nothing nice to take photos of.