The Adventures of a Frustrated Baker

When I made the Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes the other day I got a little over zealous with the frosting and ended up with an extra cup and a half left over.  So I asked myself, what do you do with a cup and half of leftover delicious frosting?  Besides sneak up in the middle of the night and eat it by the spoonful by the light of the fridge that is...not that I would ever do that...I swear... No what you do is make something else that goes with it of course!  Now I have no idea why, but the first thing that popped into my head was Twinkies.  I just felt that this delicious frosting would be great filling for a twinkie!  So I began my research...is there a homemade Twinkie recipe out there?  Turns out there are tons...and seeing as I was lucky enough to get an extra day off this week (Thanks so much President's Day!) I was feeling lazy and decided to use the easiest recipe I found.  It is also by the way the one I found people sai...

So this week I feel that I am truly living up to my name as a frustrated baker.  As you all know, this past Monday was Valentine's Day, and in honor of that we have been carrying "cupcakes" at work.  I say "cupcakes" because although they resembled the awesome tiny cakes in looks, they tasted and had the texture of cardboard and terry cloth.  They were rough and dense and flat in taste; overall, horrendous!  They gave a bad name to the title of cupcake.  As such, I felt it my duty as a cupcake fan to make some super yummy cupcakes this week.  After asking for some input from friends on Facebook, I decided to go with Love & Olive Oil 's Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes.  After all, what could be better than bubbly and strawberries?  Except maybe putting them in cupcake form, of course! I altered Lindsay's recipe slightly, as I did not want to spend all day at our Safeway trying to find coconut milk...instead I used regular 2% (it's what we ...