A Chili Return
Cakes, etc., The Office February 1st. 2011, 1:39pmOne of our test leads has been away from his office since mid-December, so it was high time for another office prank. His love of the nearby taco truck gave Darshan and I the idea to transform his office into a taco truck… which soon became more of a taco stand. We took down his door and replaced it with a fully-functional counter-height door and decorated accordingly.
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In keeping up the theme, I found this delicious recipe for Chocolate Chili cupcakes and made mini cupcakes to bring in to work. I added a touch of chili powder to the cake recipe for fun (though I really only tasted the cayenne, which was fine). I also used my own vanilla cream cheese frosting recipe in place of the chocolate one shown – the cream cheese is perfect with the bite that the spices gave the cake. I topped off a few of the cupcakes with red hots and dyed a little frosting red and green to pipe chili peppers on the rest.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Mmm.. those look great! I’ll have to try making them with the vanilla cream cheese frosting next time, probably a bit lighter-tasting than my version. The double chocolate is sinfully rich =D
March 24th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
The cupcakes look delicious! I was just wondering if you could let me know how you piped those chilli peppers? What tips did you use?
March 25th, 2011 at 8:45 am
Thanks! Off the top of my head I want to say I used the Wilton tips #2 and #4, but I don’t have the numbers memorized so I could be off slightly. Basically I just used a larger round tip pipe the red, starting small and then adding pressure to increase the size towards the top. Then I used a smaller round tip for the green topper: just make a little “3” shape and pull up a tail at the very top before stopping. Keep in mind those are small peppers for the mini cupcakes. Anne (see the link to the recipe) made some awesome looking peppers from colored melting discs that I think would work great on larger cupcakes.