I made cupcakes to bring to work for valentines day (and a few days later for my manchilds birthday) and decided I wanted a little more than just the usual solid cake cupcake. Here is my solution that is stupidly simple but was very delicious and popular.
First, make some cupcakes. I like to take the ghetto lazy approach and use a boxed mix, and to make it extra ghetto, whatever one is cheapest.
Next choose a filling. I decided since this was an experiment to just play it safe so I bought some jello chocolate pudding. It ended up being delicious but i feel like if i had really wanted to make it pop i would have put something different in it like whipped cream with custard and strawberry or something. As long as it fits through a cake decorating tip of whatever you use to fill these than it will do.
To fill the cupcake i filled up a icing bag with the pudding but i feel like if you didn't have one of these you could just use a ziplock bag and cut off one of the corners. I used to do that all the time when i was icing things.
The rest is super fast you just stick your icing tip into the top middle of each cupcake and fill it up with pudding. I liked how you could feel the cupcake inflate. You just have to be careful not to overdue it because i found that it was harder to cover them in icing later when there was pudding on the top.
And then of course you finish them off by decorating as lazily and us uninspired as you can because you left making your valentines (or birthday whichever is the case) cupcakes far too long and you have stayed up too late making them.
I made my manchild a special lunch for his birthday and as is tradition drew on the lunch bag for him. If you are a fan of adam hughes then you might recognize this horrible butchering of one of his beautiful drawings. Is was late okay?
