Hamburger Cupcakes

Dear all,

The other day my brother commented that I dedicate rather a lot of my posts to him - so today I will dedicate this post to his girlfriend instead! They both visited me recently, great evening, with one success and one failure... success first!

My brother actually gave me a new cupcake recipe book, called 'a zombie ate my cupcake' and it has all sorts of gruesome cupcake recipes in it. One odd but slightly less gruesome one was for hamburger cupcakes. Hamburger cupcakes? YES. Watch and learn.

Step 1: make one batch of vanilla cupcakes, and half a batch of chocolate cupcakes (I made a whole batch because I wanted a couple extra to do something else with - will explain later).



Step 2. Cut the vanilla cupcakes in half and make a batch of red and yellow (little bit runny) icing. This will represent the ketchup and mustard. Squirt it on as it really were a condiment:



Step 3. A good burger has lettuce of course. Now lettuce and cupcakes don't go together, so substitute coconut strips coloured green (with green lustre). Awesome!



Step 4. Cut the chocolate muffins in three. These will be the hamburger patties.



Step 5. Put the top of the vanilla muffin back on! For an even more 'authentic' look, sprinkle some sesame seeds on top! To make them stick I put some sugar water on first.



Tadaa! All done!



Now a quick side note on my other cupcake venture (the failure). I was going to make cupcakes with shards of glass (made of sugar) stuck in them with blood (cherry sauce) leaking out. Well, that backfired completely. The 'glass' never hardened, and the 'blood' was lumpy with bits of cherry. So I'm afraid these awesome cupcakes will have to wait for another time, when I pick up the courage to try again...

For now though, enjoy these burgers!

xoxo Jennifer