Ever since we started buying this maple yogurt for Baysil I've been DYING to bake with it. It's sooooo yummy. (A BIG thanks to my Aunt Kristal for introducing me to the stuff way back in '04, I'm glad to finally have an excuse to keep the creamy goodness in my house). So as Will pulled out of the drive way, oops excuse me, I mean parking spot, I thought to myself... Today is THE day. Yummy yummy yummy maple yogurt, it is time to start baking!
I wasn't in the mood for being too original or creative or homemade. I didn't want this to be the most elaborate creation I just want it to be GOOD. And good it was my friends, gooooooood it was!
I started by adding a little more than 1/2 a cup of the yogurt to a chocolate cake mix... yum delicious. It turned out beautiful. Bay and I sampled a warm one and it was smooth moist deliciousness... couldn't really taste the maple, oh well.
Onto the frosting. Being the resourceful person that I am... (cough cough) I decided to just liven up some cream cheese frosting I had left over from my last baking excursion. (I like baking ok get over it) I added coco, more butter, sugar and some maple extract and voila. PERFECTION!
Listen you may not know this but I am quite the cupcake connoisseur... I've tried Trophy's and Royal's here in WA. Royal was ok, don't waist your time on Trophy's. I've had a Mini's cupcake a time or two in Utah, eh, good. I'm not exsaturating when I say I'll take one of these Maple Chocolate Yum Yums (that's the name I gave them) over all of them... (notice I didn't mention the sacred Elizabethan Desserts in Encinitas.. yeah that's because nobody and i mean NOBODY beats those cupcake creations. That Elizabeth is down right magical!)
Ok so there it is... the one great thing that happened today. (because the rest of my day was spent cleaning up a poop disasters and doing homework.)
jolly ho.
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Will yum Yums. New name! Changed!
you could call them "poop disasters" rather than the "maple...yum yums" name. kinda catchy for a mom of two. too cute you are kass, too too cute. come back to utah so you can hook me up with some of those little guys. and you are right - you are quite the baker. i miss you so much. get back here already. nooooooooo...
Oh man i clicked on your link to the Elizabethean and i'm not gonna lie, a tear dropped down my cheek! BEST PLACE ON EARTH!
ya i didnt even get one..... thanks
Send me one in the mail please. They look soooo yum yum in my tum tum!
I didn't get one either, sigh. . . I did hear they were amazing.
You should post this at our foodwemake blog.
you are so lucky to be so close to the action!! And I'm glad to know there are other people obsessing over the Olympic Games too!
{and these cupcakes look mighty tasty as well!}
take lots of pictures and post them from your trip to Vanco2010 :)
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