My channel of choice these days has been the food network, which has got my brain into the experimental mode with my cupcakes! So this summer I made a watermelon basil, ginger blueberry and meyer lemon cupcake. For the watermelon basil, I added some watermelon flavor and dried basil to a vanilla batter - the flavor was subtle but nice, you got a hint of the basil and the sweetness of the watermelon. The ginger blueberry was also subtle - next time I would add more fresh ginger and maybe a little dried too, I punched up the blueberry flavor with some 'blueberry flavor' additive along with fresh blueberries. And the meyer lemon was made with pure meyer lemon juice and lots of zest - the sweet lemony flavor really shone through this cupcake and was excellent with a cream cheese frosting :) YUM!
Friday, August 26, 2011
summertime sweets
My channel of choice these days has been the food network, which has got my brain into the experimental mode with my cupcakes! So this summer I made a watermelon basil, ginger blueberry and meyer lemon cupcake. For the watermelon basil, I added some watermelon flavor and dried basil to a vanilla batter - the flavor was subtle but nice, you got a hint of the basil and the sweetness of the watermelon. The ginger blueberry was also subtle - next time I would add more fresh ginger and maybe a little dried too, I punched up the blueberry flavor with some 'blueberry flavor' additive along with fresh blueberries. And the meyer lemon was made with pure meyer lemon juice and lots of zest - the sweet lemony flavor really shone through this cupcake and was excellent with a cream cheese frosting :) YUM!
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