Creative Cupcakes from Trader Joe's!

Hey blog buddies! That was me talking like Davey Wavey, the flamboyant YouTube blogger extraordinaire. Anyway, a few days back, I decided I wanted to make cupcakes, especially because I had noticed an abundance of chocolate lurking in my pantry. There was just something so enthralling about a chocolate-cakey flavor, coming in cute and joyful little cups of dark, cakey sponginess. 

not even weird though

 But, I could never settle for plain old boring cupcakes! Conceptually, I knew I didn't have any fancy schmancy baking ingredients, but having set my mind on weirdness, I hunted around my kitchen in search of originality. Lo and behold, I found some awesome stuff! Tidbits of creative peanut butter, in individually wrapped pouches! Coconut flakes! Spiced Carribbean chocolate! Graham crackers... marshmallows? So, I had decided on four different flavors of cupcake: peanut butter, s'mores, coconut, and plain ecstatic chocolate. It was at this point that the adventure began. And I'm sorry, I don't know why this is highlighted, I've tried everything in my power to stop it.

Oh, and I also apologize for not taking photos of the batter - I really couldn't hold a camera while I was making it because the camera would have gotten covered in chocolatey mess, dooming it to a chocolatey death because I was too busy cooking.

I carefully lined my cupcake pan with twelve paper thingys. I put a layer of batter in the bottom of each cupcake hole, followed by the middle layer of filling, and then the final layer of cake batter on top. I went about this cake batter endeavor in a precautious manner, careful to not spill anything. Each bottom layer filled the cupcake tin a third of the way. The toppings I used were peanut butter, coconut flakes, and chunks of high-end Caribbean chocolate that was accompanied by graham crackers. The latter topping was used to create a delicious s'mores concoction.

They came out of the oven and everyone devoured them in three seconds and they tasted wonderful! Peanut butter was by far the prettiest cupcake, resembling a piece of candy, except even prettier. I dubbed it the Reese's Peanut Butter CupCake. Apparently, one JifToGo®  pouch can fill two cupcakes with peanut butter. Also, I am apparently capable of advertising for Jif®. Reese's® as well.

The S'mores cupcake definitely tasted the best, despite lacking marshmallow, but a spot of milk in a martini glass did the trick. 

Conceptualized: Reese's Peanut Butter Cupcake

You can't really see the chocolate in this s'mores cupcake below, but there are chunks of delicious, melty, spicy chocolate sprinkled around the top, accompanied by graham crackers, which may or may not have turned brown from being in chocolate cake.

Oh, and the coconut ones were pretty good.

#GlassofTheRightStuff

Until next baking (or cooking) time! Something is making me sense especially festive brownies on this blog in the near future. ;)