chocolate cupcakes

I’m having a bit of a moment when I have too much to share and don’t know where to start. Just picture me as that girl emoji with her hands on her head looking a little overwhelmed. Yep that. I’ve been so super occupied with making, testing, drawing and planning that my camera and sketchbook are full, but the blog has seemed a bit empty. Don’t worry, I get how boring it is to hear about how busy someone is so here are sweet chocolate, caramel dripping, frilly flower cupcakes which are faaar more entertaining. I made these …

Chocolate on chocolate on chocolate. Lindt specificially. That’s how we are doing things over here today. Not a summer fruit in sight. Before I started to make and assemble these cupcakes I made a Lindt ganache. This was equal measures (300g each) of Lindt chocolate bars crushed and double cream. I then made my favourite chocolate cupcakes recipe. Once they …

I can’t even concentrate on telling you about these cupcakes with that caramel just dripping there. Ugh look at it. A bit of sugar and cream has bewitched my brain. What makes it even worse is that I made these last week and there’s none left to nibble to sustain me through the next paragraph. You thought you had problems. I wanted to make salted caramel for the first time. Despite it being cool like a year a go. I wanted to attempt to make my first batch of this …