Sweet & salty CUPCAKES!
Recipe from Bake Or Break, as taken from the Baked Cookbook.
YUM YUM YUM.
My housemate L says this is the yummiest thing I have ever made, and I agree. As a cupcake, I made the cake as normal, but baked them in little paper cups, which cut the baking time down to about 15 minutes. Then I put half a teaspoon of caramel on top of each cupcake and spread that around, and used a piping bag to frost the cupcakes with the whipped ganache frosting.
And sprinkled the top of each cupcake with fine salt, because I couldn’t find any fleur de sel at Tesco 
THEY WENT SO QUICKLY! I brought two boxes for the Islamic Society event, and gave a box to the Jewish Society who were having a Shabbat meal. Went so quickly.
Thankfully I saved about 20 for home use i.e. cupcake craving moments.
After the dinner/shisha event, we (me & Maha) rushed home and got ready for the DRA Ball, which I have been to every year, having lived in DRA for two years – so decided to go this year, even though I don’t live in that residence anymore, just for the hell of it. And because I got free tickets. SCORE!
I wore the gold dress I got for Valentine’s day on Shop Bop, and my insanely high mary jane stiletto’s, that I have affectionately named stripper heels. They’re much too tall to wear for anything other than formal events! I look like a skinny giant in them. It adds like 4 or 5 inches to my height.
But with added height comes compromised stability. I’m lucky I’m not a drinker, because I’ve seen drunk girls barely able to stand in flats, I think my heels on them would be a deathwish.
Music got good at the ball at like 12.30, and I danced a little, then left at like 1am because NYBoy wasn’t feeling so hot, and I wasn’t going to let him get a cab back to St Andrews alone.
And now it’s Saturday…
NYBoy is back to normal, and in my room watching the rugby (because I have a nice TV and he does not). Maha & Paddington are coming over in a little to watch the second rugby game at mine too. I have cupcakes, dorito’s and lots of pomegranate juice to snack on.
I love Saturday’s so much more than Sunday’s 
The sweet and salty cupcakes look so delish! I was just wondering what brand of veggie shortening did you use.
Thanks!
Comment by Kylie — March 1, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
I use Crisco because it’s all we can get over here! They have to import it all the way from the US and charge ridiculous amounts for it haha.
None of the supermarkets here carry any shortening, I guess Brits don’t use it as much as Americans?
Comment by Hannah — March 1, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
those cupcakes look AMAZING! wow… delish. i love me some cupcakes… i’ll be posting about these ones i just tried from cold stone creamery in my next post. yum.
and you looked gorgeous, by the way!
Comment by kalen — March 2, 2009 @ 2:35 am
those cupcakes = yum.
you & your friends = gorgeous. i love your dresses! i barely ever have the need to dress up, but when i do, it feels great.
Comment by jordan — March 3, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Kalen; thank you! I saw the pictures of the CSC cupcakes on your blog, I’m so lucky I’ve run out of cupcake papers because that post would have led to an impulse baking session.
Jordan; Thanks! I LOVE dressing up. Even if just for the compliments, it really boosts my confidence when I put lots of effort into how I look and people notice it.
Comment by Hannah — March 4, 2009 @ 1:14 am