For this month's Iron Cupcake I've made Praline Baked Alaska Cupcakes. The cupcake part is chocolate (cocoa being a seed for a second challenge ingredient) with a fondant centre, topped with almond praline ice cream and meringue to look like frosting. Admittedly a large part of the reason for going with this idea is an excuse to use a blow torch. I had a little trouble with the ice cream, but I think this could be solved by cutting a small hollow in the top of the cupcake to sit the ice cream in so it stays put better while spreading the meringe over it. Hopefully that should prevent the escaping that happened when I cut into this for the cross section. The cupcakes were a success, with an good combination of textures. They bordered on the dessert side of cupcake, and were a little more showing off than had I gone with the more usual frosting topping.
Our February ETSY PRIZE-PACK from artists:
- DIANAEVANS - http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5599270
- as well as a pair of cupcake earrings from LOTS OF SPRINKLES at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6057281.
- PLUS, IronCupcake:Earth can not forget our good friend, CAKESPY, http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5243382, who is now going to be doing a piece for our winner each month until further notice - sweet!
As well as the awesome prizes from our corporate prize providers: HEAD CHEFS by FIESTA PRODUCTS, http://www.fiestaproducts.com, HELLO CUPCAKE by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, http://blog.hellocupcakebook.com, JESSIE STEELE APRONS http://www.jessiesteele.com; TASTE OF HOME books, http://www.tasteofhome.com; a t-shirt from UPWITHCUPCAKES.COM http://www.upwithcupcakes.com/. Iron Cupcake:Earth is sponsored in part by 1-800-Flowers, http://www.1800flowers.com .
