Over the weekend in order to try and relax before the exam season starts my sister and I had a bit of a huge baking session where we made chocolate orange cupcakes as well as our first attempt at the Hummingbird's infamous whoopies.
First of all we made the cupcakes and no exaggeration they were heavenly! Beautifully light chocolate orange sponge and a fresh, creamy, chocolate orange Philadelphia frosting. Although as fun as baking always is this experience was somewhat marred by the consequences of eating far too much of the rich frosting that was left behind after we had iced all 18 cupcakes (it was just too tasty to throw away and there is something about the act of baking that makes you regress back to a toddler who's sole aim in life is to eat the cake mix which is perhaps the beauty of it).
We would most definitely recommend this recipe; it was simple to make and utterly scrumptious!
The day after we made our first whoopie. As vegetarians we were unable to follow the recipe completely as we cannot make the marshmallow filling. The whoopie's were another light tasty sponge but because the marshmallow would obviously be incredibly sweet the cakes themselves were almost slightly sour (because of the plain yoghurt in the recipe). We therefore decided to putting a layer of caramel in the middle to add sweetness. Overall they were a lovely snack but we definitely need to improve how we make them as they were huge and for future whoopie recipes we think that maybe some of the other frosting recipes would go nicely. A good recipe for non-veggies but potentially hit and miss otherwise.
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