I Would Like S'more Cupcakes Please...

Did you see what I did there? S'more.... some more. Cupcakes. Yeah ok, lame joke, but that doesn't mean that I didn't make fantastic cupcakes this week.

You know you want them

Now, for those of you who would like to make your own S'more Cupcakes (or maybe the more alliteration filled name- Campfire Cupcakes), it's quite simple.
Start with a simple yellow cake recipe, which you obviously have to bake and let cool. If your recipe calls for "self-rising flour" don't make the mistake we made and think "well that's probably just normal flour". It's not. If you don't have self-rising flour, look up how much baking soda/powder you need and make sure it's in the batter. Otherwise, like us, you might end up with some fairly dense cupcakes. Luckily we realized this before making ALL of them and about 1/3 of the cupcakes turned out fine. While dense cupcakes aren't nearly as bad as dense people, they still were much better with the baking soda.
For the toppings, the icing is simply Nutella, confectioners sugar, and milk- the last two in equal parts, carefully mixed together until it turns to an icing thickness. If you don't know what that is, just buy your own frosting, you probably shouldn't be baking anyway. Now you could buy just regular graham crackers, but cinnamon ones are far superior, so we went with that. Also, because I'm a horrible person and like to see things suffer (kidding, Mom) I decided to buy Teddy Grahams. Of course, you have to pulverize whatever graham crackers you have for the topping. You could be all fancy and use a food processor, but I'm in college, so a makeshift mortar and pestle aka a cup and bowl were used to grind these teddies into tiny bits. Don't worry PETA, they weren't real bears.

So hopefully by this time your cupcakes are cooled by now. If you're lucky enough to have a cupcake corer like the one to the left, then once they're sufficiently cool, take out the middle and stuff that baby with some marshmallow fluff. Be careful, it gets EVERYWHERE. Just pipe on the icing (again, if you're lucky, you can use a pastry bag and all that stuff, OR if you're a cheap college student, a ziploc with a cut off corner works just fine too). Sprinkle with the dead Teddy Grahams and voila!! Delicious cupcakes. Stay tuned for more adventures of the baking barista

DRINK OF THE WEEK: Bubble tea. Get whatever flavor you like the best (if you're in Pittsburgh, Orient Express in Oakland has like a million flavors. I suggest Mango though). While the tapioca bubbles seem strange to many people, they're actually pretty fun to eat. And the tea itself is refreshing in this August weather. 

Got questions about baking or coffee? Just leave a comment, and I'll get back to you ASAP