I invented a Chocolate Imperial Stout Cupcake with Cotton Candy Italian Buttercream. I tried several beers and then also tried using them in making a new recipe for a cupcake. My dear beer guru friend Bryan turned me into a fan of North Coast Brewery's Old Rasputin Imperial Stout, and that was the winner. I love my beer geek friends! We tried two kids of beer on the show and one failed. Cotton Candy is one of the few sweet things I adore so much! I always wanted a cotton candy machine and found one. I played with the idea of how to make frosting that is as light and lovely as cotton candy. Well, thank you culinary school education for teaching me how sugar can be manipulated because the same sugar makes a divine Italian Buttercream! Problem being that the "table-top cotton candy maker" only wanted to work under the table. I feel it was a nod to the Dave Matthew's song Under The Table and Dreaming. I made it work and was laughing the whole time.
Second, as you may know I'm a huge fan of Parisian Macarons. They have become my specialty over the years. A labor of love, if you will.I always wanted to create a marriage of two of my known works. I was at my local market back in March and discovered Coconut Flour, a product I have never seen nor worked with. I love coconut cupcakes and since it is similar to nut flours I decided to try it as a base for a cupcake to get more coconut flavor. Using the idea of a macaron style cupcake I invented on my Slider cupcake. The beautiful balance between cupcake and macaron. It is probably the recipe I am most proud of to date! I have also made a more traditional almond version using almond flour and almond milk instead of coconut flour and coconut milk.
Imagine my surprise on the show when we learned it was my LA Dodgers baseball as the theme! How cool that stuff I love so much were the theme ingredients on the show. Honestly we were lucky and had a blast!
1 comment:
congratulations - the cupcakes look fantastic. Your father must be really proud! Sue Kolze
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