I love making cupcakes.
This week I tried a couple of firsts...for me. I wanted to make a mint chocolate cupcake...so...I started by making dark chocolate ganache for the first time...it turned out great! Then I melted some milk chocolate with crisco, poured it in a loaf pan and put it in the fridge for later. I then made some chocolate cupcakes that turned out perfect. Finally I made some buttercream icing, flavored them with mint, and tinted them the perfect shade of mint green.
When everything was cooled and ready, I filled the cupcakes with ganache, put a nice green swirl of mint icing on top, and then sprinkled a few milk chocolate curls on top.
The perfect cupcake! And they tasted like a little piece of heaven.
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2131134
If you can't tell...I'm am so pleased with how these turned out. 
Usually something goes wrong and I chalk it up as a learning experience. Everything went right this time!!!!! Yay me!!
They look delish!!!
Oooooooh I want some! They look so yummy, and pretty!
They look beautiful. There is something about that green and brown that just looks appeallling.
Damn, I tried not to click the link to the photo I really did, but I couldn't resist and they looked even better than I expected. Now I have a craving, lol.
YUM!!! I wish I could reach in the computer and grab one! I love it when things work out the way you want them to! Good job! 
Looks delish! What type of buttercream is it?
Looks delish! What type of buttercream is it?
This is just indydebi's buttercream. I think I put 1 or 2 tablespoons of vanilla flavoring and just a touch of mint flavoring. Mint can be so overpowering, so I started with a little bloop and then added another little bloop after tasting. Not very scientific, but I was just going by taste. HTH
Looks delish! What type of buttercream is it?
This is just indydebi's buttercream. I think I put 1 or 2 tablespoons of vanilla flavoring and just a touch of mint flavoring. Mint can be so overpowering, so I started with a little bloop and then added another little bloop after tasting. Not very scientific, but I was just going by taste. HTH
Looks delish! What type of buttercream is it?
This is just indydebi's buttercream. I think I put 1 or 2 tablespoons of vanilla flavoring and just a touch of mint flavoring. Mint can be so overpowering, so I started with a little bloop and then added another little bloop after tasting. Not very scientific, but I was just going by taste. HTH
they are so cute!! the green color was perfect! what tip did you use for your swirls? they were awesome!
2 questions 
What is indydebi's butter-cream...and do you have a good recipe for chocolate cupcakes? My daughter is getting married in a month Oct 1 and I am looking for some cupcake recipe's I need to make 250 cupcakes ...oh I'm a good daddy LOL. I have one Mandarin Orange recipe that looks great but this chocolate one with mint looks really good too. Please if you can help me with that butter-cream and a chocolate recipe I would be grateful.
2 questions
What is indydebi's butter-cream...and do you have a good recipe for chocolate cupcakes? My daughter is getting married in a month Oct 1 and I am looking for some cupcake recipe's I need to make 250 cupcakes ...oh I'm a good daddy LOL. I have one Mandarin Orange recipe that looks great but this chocolate one with mint looks really good too. Please if you can help me with that butter-cream and a chocolate recipe I would be grateful.
Indydebi's buttrcream can be found here on CC...just search the recipes. I'm really into the WASC recipes right now. You can find those here on CC as well. Good Luck!
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