Why: The team I work on is small, a total of 8 people not including myself but even still, we don't make a big deal out of birthdays. In fact, no one announces birthdays so it's not uncommon for someone's to slip by without anyone saying something. But, someone happened to mention that their birthday along with someone else's fell around the same weekend so I should make cupcakes. One birthday person was completely indifferent as long as there was chocolate and the other just wanted the frosting that goes on german chocolate cake. Well, I made over 3 dozen cupcakes only to find that the german chocolate dude took the day off! Rude! Others in the office gobbled them up though, some people were even hiding cupcakes for later. My bosses boss even snook some home to share with his kids.
What: Not wanting to make two kinds of cupcakes I did two very different cupcakes with the same chocolate cupcake base. I made the german chocolate frosting from this recipe. While it's not the most attractive frosting, it turned out very tasty. It wasn't overly sweet and I went a little light on the pecans, mostly because I ran out :). When I was mixing the cupcakes I was a little light on cocoa powder so I added some melted unsweetened chocolate chips but the cake itself still wasn't the rich chocolate taste I was going for so for the mint cupcakes I covered the top of each cupcake with chocolate ganache. I used my standard buttercream recipe and slowly added mint extract so it was subtle. Nothing ruins a dessert quicker than an over powering taste of mint. And of course, so people would know that the cupcakes are mint I added a little green coloring. I added a little drizzle of ganache over to top of the cupcakes to make them a little fancy. Just a little.
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