It has, again, been a busy week. We went to the Fralin Art Museum at UVA this week to enhance our observation skills. The point is to observe the outcomes of our experiments as a whole, and not look solely for the outcome we want. I then went to dinner with a few of the other first years--I think we are starting to bond (at least I sincerely hope so). In fact, I invited a few over tomorrow night for dinner and a movie.
I am very excited for everyone to come tomorrow, and in preparation I baked oreo cupcakes. I modified a recipe from Roxana's Home Baking. It made one dozen cupcakes!
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs, room temperature
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup skim milk, room temperature
12 oreo cookies
1. Mix butter and sugar
2. Add in vanilla and eggs, one at a time
3. Add in the baking powder
4. Alternate adding in the flour and milk. I added 1/2 flour, 1/2 milk, 1/2 flour, milk, and the rest of the flour.
5. Stop mixing when all of the flour is added
6. Place cupcake liners in the cupcake tin
7. Put an Oreo at the bottom of the cupcake liner
8. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes
I will say that the cupcakes were denser than I would have liked. Most likely it is due to not bringing all of the ingredients to room temperature. My suggestion is to use 2/3 cups milk and add chocolate chips! I just hope that the people coming over tomorrow will like them!
I am going to include the link to the original recipe, because I think the original recipe was probably amazing.
http://roxanashomebaking.com/mms-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-and-chocolate-ganache-recipe/
Now, I just have to figure out what I am serving for dinner.
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