You can vote for my Chocolate Cupcakes with Green Tea Frosting and Red Bean Paste Filling HERE.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Green Tea Frosting and Red Bean Paste Filling
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Green Tea Frosting and Red Bean Paste
My sister came to me a few weeks prior to her birthday party and asked me to make cupcakes for her Japanese/Asian-themed party. What better way to kill two birds with one stone than for this month’s Iron Cupcake challenge using the “Chocolate with a Twist” theme. You can vote for me starting December 25h and help me win, if you’d like.
An exotic mix of flavors, a mocha laced chocolate cupcake filled with red bean paste and green tea matcha frosting, these cupcakes are not for the faint of heart. The flavors are fairly eclectic and can be somewhat of an acquired taste. However, they work together beautifully creating a unique blend of decadence and cultural surprise.
Thankfully, the majority of the folks who attended her party were up for the challenge to the good ol’ ‘buds and actually enjoyed the mix of flavors.
Vote for my Cupcakes
Voting begins today for the Iron Cupcake Challenge and closes at noon, central time, on Dec 5th. If you’d like to vote for my Pound Cupcakes with White Chocolate & Cranberry Mousse…
VOTE FOR ME HERE!
(The poll is on the right column. Select “VegSF” and click “Vote”)
Thanks for the votes!
Pound Cupcakes with White Chocolate & Cranberry Mousse
It’s time again for the Iron Cupcake challenge where you can vote for me starting Nov 30th and help me win. This is my second month, so I’m feeling less nervous this time around and more excited. I didn’t win last month’s challenge, unfortunately, but maybe this month. Hopefully? Thanks to everyone who voted for me last month. Keep voting for me and eventually, we’ll win it!
This month’s challenge ingredient is Cranberry.I have an amazing holiday pudding recipe that uses homemade vanilla and chocolate puddings, pound cake, cranberry sauce and whipped cream. It’s a delicious combination of flavors and that is what became my inspiration for these cupcakes.
Cupcakes
So, my Manchego & Membrillo Cupcakes didn’t win last month’s Iron Cupcake Challenge. (wah! thanks to everyone who voted for me! I got a lot more votes than other folks did!) oh well… This month’s ingredient is cranberry. I gotta put my thinking cap on and come up with something delicious and unique.
Hummmm….
Vote for me!
Today’s the day when voting starts for the Iron Cupcake Challenge. If you’d like to vote for my Manchego & Membrillo Cupcakes…
VOTE FOR ME HERE!
(The poll is on the right column. Select “VegSF” and click “Vote”)
Thanks!
Manchego & Membrillo (Quince) Cupcakes
This is my first entry in the Iron Cupcake challenge where you, my fair readers can vote for me starting Oct 26th and help me win. I venture into this challenge slightly excited and nervous.
This month’s challenge ingredient is Cheese. After wracking my brain for something unique, I came up with Manchego and Membrillo. Manchego is a sheep’s milk cheese from Spain. It is very frequently paired with Membrillo – a paste made from quince also famously from Spain. (Both these ingredients can be found at a Whole Foods or other gourmet foods store.)
My grandparents on my mom’s side had a quince tree in their back yard. Every year when the quince were ripe, grandma would make quince preserves, jellies, cookies, and other goodies. So, the flavor of the fruit conjures up sentimental feelings. And though they were not from Spain, my grandma on my dad’s side is from Spain.
So, I have to think… What better ingredients to use than Quince (Membrillo) and Manchego for a sentimental and inspired cupcake?
Cupcake Challenges
I’m debating whether or not to try to join some of the cupcake challenges… This months’ Iron Cupcake challenge is with cheese as an ingredient. Cheese + Cupcake = Two of my favorite things! In fact, I already have an idea for which cheese I would use and combine it with a nice fall ingredient that holds sentimental value from my past.
There’s also Cupcake Hero. The August flavor was “bakers choice” with ingredients from the past year’s CH challenges. I haven’t yet seen what October’s is…
What do you think? Should I do it? You know how much I love baking and especially cupcakes! I’m “this close” to trying it this weekend.
