Original Cupcake Creation!

I finally did it!  I created my own cupcake.  Not just the decoration either like my red velvet cupcakes!  As I said in a past blog, I bought some small thin mints from a seller going door to door.  So today I got some ingredients went through some of my cookbooks and put together my own cupcake creation!

Mint Chocolate Cupcakes
Andes Mint Buttercream Frosting
Thin Mint on Top

It's pretty exciting to me, and thankfully my design project for school has to do with baking or I couldn't make excuses to use my time this way...   Anyway!   It's a mint chocolate cupcake that I found out of one of my cookbooks.  I then found a normal buttercream frosting recipe, but changed it.  I added Andes mint chips to the frosting to make it a little minty!   I then tried to color half of the frosting green, because I wanted to make them a swirl of green and white on top of the cupcake.  Well it didn't work out exactly.  I do not have a big enough tip for my frosting bags and so the mint chips got stuck and prevented the frosting to go on correctly.  So I used what I could find, it worked alright, but they are not that pretty looking.. next time I'll invest in something that will work better!   To top off the cupcakes I used the thin mints that I bought from the boy going door to door!    It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed how they tasted, and so did my roommate!! :)   I am now taking the rest to my classmates tomorrow morning and see what they think as well!