In fact, I'm totally going to throw you off with this post, and we're going to talk about DESSERT! More specifically cupcakes. Get ready all you Cupcake Wars fans; I'm about to collect a couple of friends and blow you away.
We had a friend who most recently got back from studying abroad in China for a year. A whole entire year! It was so long, and when he got back, we knew we had to do something special, Asian, and unforgettable for his homecoming. So naturally, Chinese food take-out cupcakes seemed to be in order! When he left, we prepared him a "fortune cookie cake" which was in fact exactly what it sounds like-- a cake made out of nothing but crushed up fortune cookies and paper. Actually just a vanilla cake in the shape of a fortune cookie with awkward colored frosting that took one hour to mix into the perfect hue of "fortune-cookie yellow", with a piece of paper sticking out of it. Cool, but more than rivaled by these bad boys.
The base was a simple vanilla cake mix, but the toppings, well, those were a different story. There were fried rice cupcakes and fortune cookie cupcakes. And they were awesome. Thanks to Sherry for her dedication to this project and the idea/ book containing the idea for these cupcakes. Thanks to Brittany for her manual labor and sticky hands while making these cupcakes.
I don't think I am going to tell you how to make these cupcakes, just because I can do that. I'm going to let you look at them, and tell you what's in them. They are simple boxes vanilla cake mix, spruced up with a bit of homemade buttermilk and baked like normal cupcakes typically are. Some of the tops baked up too much, so we had to cut the tops off of some of the ones we used for the fried rice cupcakes. The fortune cookies were made by melting soft caramel chews in the microwave for 10 seconds, rolling them out on wax paper, and using a circular mold (opening of a cut) to press a template we cut out with a knife. Those were then folded into the shape you see there.
The fried rice was made by using a variety of candies such as halved green jellybeans (for the peas), cut and cubed orange tootsie rolls (for the carrots), pink laffy taffy (for the pork), yellow laffy taffy (for the eggs), and green laffy taffy (for the chives). It came together using a bit if vanilla frosting, tinted with cocoa powder, which was mixed in a bowl with rice krispies and the candies. Additional candy was added to the top for effect. Get the book if you want to do it... otherwise, marvel over these!
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"Zis cupcake is a yes for me!" - Russian Guy from Cupcake Wars
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