This week I decided to test my hand at the Snickerdoodle cupcake recipe posted there I knew I just had to try my hand at it, because I love snickerdoodles and I adore cupcakes, so it was a perfect match for me.
Unlike the vanilla cupcakes, the cake part was just right for me. Very light and fluffy and tasted just like the cookie. My only complaint would be that while the cupcakes weren't dry, they also weren't moist enough for my tastes.
Now I have a confession to make: I haven't been making frosting from scratch for a while now. I've basically been scared away from it because the last few times I've whipped up a batch of frosting, the results were very runny and loose. After a while, I came to the conclusion that nothing I was doing had caused this and the problem was simply that the kitchen was too hot, but since then I have been buying canned frosting and adding little things to make it taste less chemically.
This week I added a bit of homemade dulce de leche to a vanilla frosting can and the results were... alright. the main flaw was that there wasn't enough dulce de leche to add, because my family had picked away at the batch over the week until there was very little left.
The main thing that I walked away from this experience was that I am now ready to go back to making frosting from scratch. I have one last can which I will use next week, but after that, I will be done.
