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German's chocolate cupcakes!

Omg, I love this recipe. Not as much as my Tiramisu cupcake, but its up there. This actually took me 3 hours to make, only because I was watching Leatherheads and oogling John Krasinski while baking. It was relatively easy to make and messy too!

I decided to look up the origin of German Chocolate Cake when I came across some interesting stuff. Apparently this cake is American and has no German association except for the fact that in 1852 a gentleman by the name Sam German made this dark baking chocolate bar for Baker's Chocolate Company. After a while they just dropped the apostrophe and the "S" and it became Baker's German Sweet Chocolate instead.

I baked this recipe for my hubbster Jesse. He looooves coconuts. Hopefully there are still cupcakes when I get home tonight. :) A coworker also asked me to bake this for them. Ill do that next week.

Ingredients for the cupcake:

1 1/4 all purpose flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temp

1 large egg at room temp

1/2 tsp of vanilla extract

2 oz semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled to room temp

1/4 cup sour cream

1/2 cup of milk (I used 2%)

Instructions for mixing:

First, lets heat up the oven to 350 degrees then set up your muffin pans. Do not use the paper cupcake liners so that it doesn't leave the rigid lines on the cake itself. Instead spray/rub the pans with butter. I like Mazola's Butter Cooking Spray personally.

Next, combine in one bowl the flour, salt and baking soda. Meanwhile, In another bowl, using an electric mixer at medium-high speed, beat sugar and butter until fully combined and fluffy for 2-3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla next, then beat until combined together. Add the melted chocolate and sour cream and beat on low.

Finally, add the flour in 3 additions alternating with the milk in 2, beat on low speed, scraping down the sides when you need to. Once you are done with that go ahead and fill the muffin pans 3/4 of the way and bake for 18 minutes or until done. Check to see with a toothpick in the center of the cupcakes. If it comes out clean its ready!

German's Chocolate Topping:

3/4 cup of evaporated milk

1/2 cup of light brown sugar firmly packed

1/2 cup of butter cut into 8 pieces

1 1/4 cup of sweetened coconut shavings

1 cup of pecans coarsely chopped although you can just use a mortar and pestle to crush them.

pinch of salt

Over a medium heat combine evaporated milk, brown sugar and butter, bring to a simmer. Then remove the sauce pan from heat and mix in pecans, coconut and salt. Let cool for till it reaches room temp. Please be careful since it is hot.

Instructions for assembly:

Once the cupcake has cooled, with a parring knife, cut a quarter of the top of the cupcake off. Set the larger portion of the cupcake in a cupcake liner and use the Filling/Frosting you made earlier. Apply only a teaspoon in the center of the cupcake. Once you have done that grab the top portion that you cut off and place it on top of the filling. Go ahead and scoop up another teaspoon and apply it to the cupcake. Voila! A double-tiered cupcake!

Kugelhopf and the day after.

So I know I'm suppose to post on Tuesdays for my TWD cooking posts, but yesterday I was sick and just felt blah! I really wanted to do this recipe though. I love baking cakes and I love turning them into yummy breads. Although I do love the way bundt pans look at the same time I also dont like them for the same reason.

I thought this would be better put to use in a bread pan. Eaten like bread and not cake. I waited for today to have a bite of it with some butter and caramel flavored coffee. The raisans were so yummy in this Kugelhopf. Oh man, I almost died of delight when I had that first bite.

Although it was really tasty I just have to say to Dorie, Why...Why must you pick the most craziest recipies that require an insane amount of prep time and not even WARN me about it! Jeez Louise! I wanted to kill myself making this cake. That and I had a husband asking me when it would be ready. Its like having a child in the back seat asking if you are already there yet. You just want to drop it of on the side of the road, but know that you would end up seeing some jailtime for it.

Also I've been sick for the past few days and have been traveling from west coast to east coast. It's been pretty non-stop for me the last 3 weeks or so. I went to Las Vegas for a dear friends wedding. It was completely beautiful. I got to see our friends cry and of course my husband made fun of the groom sniffling the entire time. I won 500 big ones at a Texas Hold'em table on my first try. Im sure it wont happen again, but it was fun as hell. I spent 4 days in Vegas and had so much fun this time around even though last time I went I got married. Too many things to do the last time I guess.

I then came back and was only home for 2 days when I had to drive 9 hours to Georgia to my little nephews birthday party. Conan, the dog that I had mentioned before, didnt get adopted by my coworker and my mom got him anyways. Now she has 2 mini-pinches. I was in Georgia for 2 days, hung out with family, went to a 65 mile yard sale and found a working Commodore 64 for a dollar, and finally when to a bon-fire. I loved the weather up there. I wish it would get cold here in Miami.

Im going to be making some cupcakes tomorrow and experimenting with fondant decorations as well. I know Ill be tired as hell seeing as I'll be at Best Buy tonight waiting in line like a reatrd for the release of Wrath of The Lich King. Bleh.