get back up, shake off all the dust

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Cupcakes!

Banana-Cardamom Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, if we’re being fancy and descriptive about it. And oh my god, are they good. The cupcakes themselves are from the recipe here, found via foodgawker. They’re not what I’m used to making – the batter was really firm and almost cookie-dough-ish, as opposed to the more liquid cupcake batter I’ve made with other recipes in the past. It turned out wonderfully, though, and I have it on good authority from several people that the cupcakes are delicious.

The frosting is – well, we’ll call it chocolate buttercream, it’s sort of “the best I could do icing-wise with what I had in my kitchen,” but it’s made of cocoa and butter and icing sugar in proportions that worked out okay.

Song of the Entry: Plain White T’s – Big Bad World

she said, 'love it all, love it all, love it all'

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My chocolate-ginger mini cakes, all iced. This is actually only half the batch – the recipe made six mini cakes, which I have now come to realize is an awful lot of cake. I can give some away, but not all of it – clearly, the next time I make these will need to be around somebody’s birthday.

Song of the Entry: The Kooks – Love It All