About three years ago if you had asked me to cook you something I would have thrown piece of chicken in the oven with some salt and pepper and olive oil and baked it. I hated cooking and wasn't very good at it. After I got married I started experimenting with cooking by following simple recipes, I started to enjoy watching my husband's face light up and gauged a recipe by how many MMMMM's I got from my husband. It just began to evolve from there........

Monday, August 23, 2010

Orange-Chocolate Dreamsicle Cupcakes

Michael is a huge fan of orange, He loves everything that tastes smells or even looks like an orange. So for his poker night I thought I would try making orange cupcakes with Chocolate icing. I used the same icing recipe as the white chocolate and just changed the white chocolate to semi sweet chocolate. I decided to punch the orange flavor a little more since I was adding chocolate chips to the batter so I used orange juice in place of the water in the mix.......                            

Ingredients
Cake:
1 serving(s) Moist Deluxe Duncan Hines orange supreme cake mix (follow cake mix directions)
1⅓ cup(s) orange juice: used instead of water in cake mix
1/2 bag Ghirardelli Chocolate chips

Frosting:
3½ cup(s) powdered sugar, sifted
½ cup milk
9 oz Ghirardelli semi sweet chocolate bar
1 tsp vanilla extract
 2 pinches of  table salt
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick/3 oz./85g) unsalted butter, softened 

Directions:
Mix and bake the cake according to directions, fol din chocolate chips (if desired) after batter is mixed. Spoon into cup cake tins and bake.

Icing:
1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Stir until smooth. Let cool to room temperature.

2. Sift the confectioners' sugar into a medium bowl. Stir in the milk and vanilla. Add the butter and salt and beat until smooth. Stir in the cooled white chocolate. Refrigerate until firm enough to frost the cupcakes, about 30 minutes.

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