So a few days ago I asked Jessica what kind of cupcakes she wanted for her birthday. Her response, “yellow with chocolate icing.” Well, I had hoped she might want something a little more exciting, so that I could get a little experimental, but alas, she wanted the most plain cupcake of all time. Well, I just couldn’t let that happen. I determined I had to do something a little extra to the cupcakes.
I got to thinking about a cake that Mama makes where she pours condensed milk all over the cake. So I decided to give that a try with the cupcakes. So I made some yellow and some chocolate. When they were fresh out of the oven, I poked a hole with a wooden spoon in each cupcake. I only went about 3/4 of the way down because I didn’t want to totally split them in half. Then I took a can of condensed milk, and drizzled some down into each cupcake. Now all total there were 48 cupcakes, and I used probably 2/3 of the can. Looking back, I probably could have used the whole thing and it would have been fine, but I was afraid of overkill. Then I covered them in foil and let them sit overnight.
Now, the frosting I used is a whole other kind of delicious. Basically, you take a can of whatever frosting you like (I used the chocolate kind that has Hershey’s chocolate in it), a brick of room temperature cream cheese, and a small tub of Cool Whip. Beat all of these together in a large bowl until they are smooth and creamy. If you want to, you can make it ahead and refrigerate it. The chocolate ended up being much lighter in color, but still had a delicious chocolaty flavor. Be prepared to want to do nothing but stand there and eat the frosting by the spoonful. Not that I would do anything that crazy, but I mean come on you HAVE to taste as you go. And sometimes you have to taste like 8 spoonfuls to make sure it’s perfect. Don’t judge me!
Now, be aware that you could do this exact same thing with a regular cake of any flavor, just poke holes over the hole cake and pour the can of condensed milk over it. You can mix up that frosting recipe with any flavor of frosting, including a can of cream cheese frosting if y0u are just in the mood for the creamiest cream cheese frosting ever on the planet. The cupcakes were a hit, and the only part Jessica didn’t like was that I apparently didn’t pack enough for our road trip.
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