earl grey chocolate cupcakes with creamy vanilla frosting.
okay, wipe the drool off of your sundress. get yourself together, woman.
these cupcakes were both a literal and metaphorical mouthful when i told the guests at my 21st birthday that they would be the lucky recipients of these bad boys. plus lavender lemonade. plus this recipe of witches brew (yes, it’s sangria. and no, i will never stop calling it witches brew, ever).
yes, i am accepting offers to be on the guest list of my 22nd birthday. stand behind the velvet rope, please.
regardless, i dreamt about these cupcakes for months. i usually plan parties because i want to merit a new, crazy-seeming baking project + have twenty willing victims to taste-test it. ergo, earl grey chocolate cupcakes.
guys, i cried when i put one of these in my gullet. after i put the (shockingly bright green) frosting with purple zombie sprinkles on top of it, it was beautiful. it was like getting a back massage while watching “the princess diaries” and someone is feeding you a bowl of pasta, all at the same time. that kind of beauty.
but really, this recipe was deceptively simple. i dare you to mess this up. and then feed me the “mess ups”, because they will still be delicious.
1. take your favorite chocolate cake recipe (vegan or not, the one in this cookbook is my favorite. i also got my lavender lemonade recipe from here).
2. grind up six packets worth of earl grey tea in a coffee grinder until it’s a fine powder.
3. fold in to cake batter, bake according to directions. ice to your liking (i use the basic recipe from isa chandra, goddess of vegan baking). i think lavender icing would be BOMB on this kind of cake, but i was too lazy to make two lavender-y sweet treats. first world problems, much?
4. win the admiration and praise from all of your friends and immediate family members. bask, homegirl. bask in it.
and remember; pinkies up when eating these cupcakes, darling.
other feed the mackenzie posts:
versunkener apfelkuchen (german apple cake)
cinnamon apple crisp
pumpkin cake with cranberry glaze
creamy vegan (spicy as shizz) tomato soup
I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD DO THIS WITH TEA!! I always assumed this stuff involved steeping the tea and using it in the recipe. I’m going to put tea in everything now!
“it was like getting a back massage while watching “the princess diaries” and someone is feeding you a bowl of pasta, all at the same time. that kind of beauty.” and THAT is why i love you.
these sound amazing. your whole party does. i better be on the list for next year.