I haven’t had unsalted butter in my refrigerator for two weeks now, which is why posts have been slow here. Everything I want to bake requires unsalted butter! People have given me suggestions – like baking something vegan, but it seems that vegan recipes always have another ingredient (or three) that I don’t have or can’t get at my local store.
So anyway, tomorrow is Earth Day. I saw these cupcakes, Dirt Cupcakes, from Bleeding Heart Bakery on Cupcakes Take The Cake and thought I’d try to replicate them (as much as I could) as they looked quite nice.
They do look like a pile of dirt and mud! Actually, these are Martha Stewart’s one-bowl chocolate cupcakes, Hershey’s dark chocolate mousse frosting, and crumbs from one of the cupcakes.
For the cupcakes, I divided the recipe in half. The recipe says to fill the cupcake liners 1/3′s full, but I thought that this wouldn’t be enough, so I filled them closer to 2/3′s full – I got 12 cupcakes. I also used Hershey’s Special Dark dutch-processed cocoa. For the mousse, it isn’t really a frosting, but in this case I made it become a frosting. I divided this recipe in half as well and still had plenty of mousse leftover (the recipe didn’t mention this, but I used my stand mixer’s whisk attachment for creating the mousse). For the crumbs, I just simply crumbled one of the cupcakes up with my fingers.
These are really nice cupcakes and very chocolatey. Since the frosting is comprised mostly of whipping cream, leftover cupcakes (and mousse, of course) will need to be stored in the refrigerator. However, after tasting one of these straight from the refrigerator, I am recommending that these cupcakes are best enjoyed immediately after frosting; they weren’t quite as nice after refrigeration (or maybe let them return to room temperature before eating – about 10 minutes, I’d imagine).
Happy Earth Day!
Such a fabulous idea!!!!! That’s my kind of dirt!
Damn those look good! I would eat one of those in a singe mouthful, then turn to the next. This is why I don’t make cupcakes.
Those look fun. They would be great for kids especially if you add in some of those gummy worms.
~ingrid
Ingrid – I totally thought about gummy worms and would have added them if I had had any! :)
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I just want to bite this!
Cute idea for Earth Day! Have you seen these?
Yes, those are awesome, such a great idea!
I remember making dirt cake with gummy worms in it and plastic flowers as a kid! These are too cute…and I bet they are as good as the cake!
these look sooooo good I will have to try them one day soon.
Thanks for sharing!
Those look great! What a good idea and perfect for earth day, definitely fit well! Yum!!
These are so clever and look delish.
I make something like this for my kids for Halloween but we use crushed Oreo cookies for the dirt and put gummy worms on top. They love them!!