Peanut Butter filled Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting & Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Filling and Buttercream Frosting!

Chocolate Cupcake with Cookie Dough center and Chocolate Buttercream!

Carrot Cupcake with Almond Cream Cheese Frosting!

Just thought I would put a couple pictures out there....

Tried out a couple new cupcake flavors over the weekend. While the flavor was definitely dead on (with several taste testers agreeing) the overall look of the cupcakes left something to be desired... First cupcake was a White Chocolate Chipotle with a White Chocolate Ganache covered in sanding sugar. The White Chocolate Chipotle cookie is such a hit, I had to try it in a cupcake! The tickle of spiciness is not quite as strong as the cookie (I was expecting it to be stronger, actually), but the flavor, texture, and moistness was all very good. I may leave this cupcake as it is or I may try to make a whipped frosting to give it some height. This was definitely the most eye appealing of the two cupcakes! Cupcake number 2 was a Strawberry n Cream cupcake. A moist vanilla sponge topped with cream and strawberry glaze with a tasty strawberry placed on top. That glaze did not want to stay on the cupcake and took the strawberry with it! :( You can't learn without failure, however, so next time that delicious glaze will have some chopped up strawberry in it and will be a wonderful filling for this cupcake topped with a cream frosting! Live and learn!