Review: My Delight Cupcakery

Mmm... Cupcakes. This is why I bake. I love Cupcakes. Biting in to sweet little crumbly cakes, with buttercream plastered all over your mouth and face... Worth it. 

When I heard about this little cupcake store, My Delight Cupcakery, from a co-worker, I told myself, I need to try it... That was 2 years ago. Haha... #slacker. So this past Saturday, I finally took the time to try it out... Since I had no breakfast and I was hungry. 

Maybe like most baker (or is it just me?) I judge a bakery based on their Chocolate Chip Cookies or their Red Velvet Cupcakes. So of course I had to get some Red Velvet and 2 other flavors.

They serve 2 sizes, Mini ($1.50/pc) and Regular ($3/pc). Since I'm on a trial mode, I decided to get 6 minis, 2 of each flavor, Red Velvet, Breakfast, and Carrot Cake. 

First I bit into to the Red Velvet. Mmm... It was good. The texture of the cake was moist and soft, while the Madagascar Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting was soft. Not stiff (like store-kind frosting), it's just soft... Melts in your mouth. I was really happy with this. I could've eaten 5 of these minis.

Now for you bacon-enthusiast, this would be your cupcake. Buttermilk cake with hints of small bacon bits, topped with Maple Buttercream and MORE mapley bacon bits. It's like eating a pancake tray from McDonalds... but way better. I was impressed with this one. This was the cupcake that make this bakery won the LA Cupcake Challenge. Yum. I bet your boyfriend/husband will love this one.

I love Carrot Cake. So when I saw Carrot Cake in the mini, I had to grab it. The cake was moist, the frosting for me was a tad bit too sweet. Maybe because I ate 2 cupcakes already. But I didn't care. I chowed it down anyways.

If you're in the Inland Empire area, I recommend this little bakery that's located conveniently right off the I-10 FWY. What's awesome, a Starbucks is right next to it! Hah. Coffee & Cupcakes. Perfect.

ps: they have a food truck. awesome!

My Delight Cupcakery
1520 N Mountain Ave, #B108
Ontario, CA 91762
(909) 988-4151

nom,
Rima

Chocolate and Beer

Chocolate and Beer. I love both.

Chocolate Beer? I love that too.

I'm not a big fan of dark beer. Guinness? Blech. Good for baking. When my demanding Doctor at work, Dr. Sweet Tooth, asked me when will I bake again, I told him I'll make something with Chocolate Stout. Homeboy was happy.

So little ol' alcoholic me skipped her way into Total Wine & More. If you don't know what Total Wine is, it's like BevMo, but better (in my opinion). Their selections of imported beer, amazeballs. I believe if you're a Winer, you would love it too.

It's like Toys R Us... for adults. I was originally there for a co-worker who wanted me to pick up some Limited Edition Beer and I knew that I was gonna pick up some Chocolate Stout. So I came up with those two up there... Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout and St. Peter's Cream Stout. Just reading the packaging I was drooling already. And of course I stacked up on some Lambics (I'm a huge Lambic Frambroise beer fan!)

After wasting 1 hour browsing, I bumped in to this bottle of awesomeness...

Oh my oh my oh my. I had my first taste of Absinthe at the Edison in Los Angeles. It was delicious. Even the servers were dressed as Green Fairies. This little bottle cost $9.99 (!!!), 55% Alcohol content, 110 Proof. I was like, "OH HAY". But, I did not buy. I will buy it one day. I want to learn how to drink it properly (you know, sugar cubez and all) [a lil 411: Absinthe was given to soldiers as a malaria treatment in the 1840s. As a nurse, I sorta approve. jk]

Anyways, after a long ass day at work, I still had the energy courage to bake. So I made Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with the recipe from Smitten Kitchen. The difference was the beer of choice (I used St. Peter's Creamy Stout) and the baking time (18 - 19 minutes per muffin pan). 

Gosh, the smell was great. Beer and butter? Yum. The beer alone was delicious. Like I said, I'm not a big fan of dark beer, but this one was yummy. You taste the hint of chocolate and espresso. Hmmm... The bitterness was actually tolerable. 

Of course, I ended up baking buzzed.

Instead of using the ganache recipe, I used the Raspberry frosting that I learned from a recent baking class I took at Sur La Table. Being a rebel, I didn't follow as directed and the frosting came out soupy. Yet it tasted sooo good. Of course I didn't want it to go to waste.

Being a nurse, I inject people. Being a baker, I injected the frosting in to the cupcakes. Similar yet different. Fun, though.

See how soupy the frosting is? I ate it though. Screw my diet.

So next project would probably be Chocolate Stout Brownies. Dr. Sweet Tooth will probably be all giddy. 

xo,
Rima

Food Time: Beer Infused Chocolate Cupcake with Maple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting & Maple Glazed Bacon

ISN'T THAT A MOUTHFUL TITLE? Damn.

I know it's been awhile for me to share you some cool recipes. So of course, I wanted to make this after watching 2 Broke Girls awhile back (one of my favorite shows ever. I recommend)... So finally for a co-workers 40th birthday, I decided to make these yummy thing.

After googling around, I finally settled with one recipe and kinda tweaked it to my own version.

The co-workers love it. One of my co-worker's husband told her to tell me that he wants to marry me (I kindly decline that offer).

Oh and if you don't want ETOH involved, you can substitute the beer with Orange Juice? Haha... It'll probably give a nice chocolate cake with a hint of citrus in it. Yum.

Instead, I use Guinness (that's what this recipe called for). Yum.

This is a total Dude's Cupcake. Man Cake? That sounds weird.

Guinness Infused Chocolate Cupcake with Maple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and Maple Glazed Bacon

adapted from Just Putzing Around the Kitchen

Makes 24 Cupcakes

What You Need:

• Le Cupcakes:
• 1 cup Guinness
• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Le Bacon:
• 3 strips bacon
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• Le Frosting:
• 8oz block cream cheese, softened
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 3 - 4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp candied bacon drippings

butter infused beer? or beer infused butter? Smells good to me.

DIRECTIONNNNZZZ (be prepare to drool)

1. Preheat your oven at 350F. Line 2 cupcake pans with your cool cupcake liners. Woo.
2. In a medium size pan over medium heat, simmer the beer and add the butter until it melts. Enjoy the fragrance. I was really giddy. 
3. Add the chocolate chips and cocoa powder, stir until the chips melt, mix until smooth and set aside to cool.
4. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and yogurt/sour cream until they're mix well.
5. Add the chocolate mixture into the egg mix and mix well & smooth.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until they're no lumps.
7. Scoop them batter in to the liners, approx 2/3 full and bake for 18 minutes, until a cake tester comes out crumbly clean :)
8. Once the cupcakes are done, cool them off on top of cooling racks. Meanwhile, bump up the oven to 375F.
9. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Lay the bacon strips on to the sheet and with a pastry brush, brush them bacons with maple syrup. Drool.
10. Bake the bacons for 10 minutes, but half way around, pull them out and brush more maple syrups on top of them.
11. After the 10 minutes are up, flip the bacon and brush maple syrup again on top of the bacon and bake again for another 10 minutes. I turn my oven light on and stare at the bacon getting all candied. I get giddy again.
12. One last time, pull them out, flip, brush again the bacon with maple syrup and bake for another 3-5 minutes.
13. Remove from the oven and let them yummy bacon cool.
14. While cupcakes and bacon cool, let's make the frostings (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
15. With your paddle attachment for your stand mixer (or handheld is cool too!), mix cream cheese and butter until smooth and awesomely incorporated
16. Stop your mixer, add sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, mix in slow speed until powdered sugar are mix in, and bump up the speed to medium. Mix for 2-3 minutes each time. I usually used 3-4 cups of powdered sugar, because usually it's meets to consistency & sweetness that I like. It's optional if you want your frosting to be more stiff and/or sweeter.
17. Once you've reached the consistency that you want, add maple syrup (yum) and the bacon drippings.
18. When ready, frost your cupcake with a sexy frost tip.
19. Slice one piece of the bacon, about 1 inch long, and place on top of each frosted cupcake.
20. Crumbled the rest of the bacon and sprinkle them on top of the cupcakes.
21. Breathe in the awesome fragrance of the cupcake and indulge. Now. Love it? Me too.

As always, comments/critics/suggestions are always accepted. LET ME KNOW YO!

The Graduation Cupcakes

First of all, I would like to congratulate all the students that finally graduation this past weekend. Lots of friends and family I know graduated from college. So proud of all of them.

Anyways, one of the new grads, my friend, Gaby, threw a grad party for her. Kindly enough she asked me to make some cupcakes for it. She ordered 3 dozen of 3 different flavors, and I spend all Friday night after work and Saturday afternoon to complete the 3. It was fun and tiring at the same time. I was really in Frosting Heaven. I don't usually brag about my creations, but I was impressed on how awesome the frostings were. Hehe.

So for the cupcakes, she ordered (from left to right):

• Kahlua Coffee Cupcake with Kahlua Infused Buttercream with Espresso
• Chocolate Souffle Cupcake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
• French Vanilla Cupcake with Strawberry Lambrusco Wine Buttercream

I even made some toppers, like the Fist Pump one in the middle, for her. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I attended the party after my cousin's wedding, and I was all smiles when there was no cupcake left when I arrived. Hahaha... For me that was a major compliment. Lots of the people there said they love them. Yay. The owner of the house where the party was held even asked if I made Vegan Cupcakes. I'm like, yeaah :)

I promise I will post a recipe soon. Probably the Kahlua one. Hee Hee.

moonbeams & bunny kisses,

Cupcake Challenge

It's 2012 and I want a challenge.


Leave a comment and challenge me with a cupcake flavor and its frosting.

I want to challenge myself on flavor & taste (presentation will come later hehe)!

This week I challenged myself to make a boozy cupcake, and I think it was a success (sorta). Found several recipes of this particular cupcake, but now I know that I need some adjustments and tweaking of the frosting.

I present you the Kahlua Chocolate Cupcake. Recipe will follow in another post.

So post your ideas and I will see who has the most interesting one, and i will make it for your entertainment.

As how Barney Stinson says, "Challenge Accepted"

Moonbeams & Bunny Kisses,
Rima