October's "Cupcake Hero" challenge is pumpkin, and so I'm working hard to craft my cupcake. Instead of using pumpkin in the cupcake like everyone else, I'm going to use it only in the frosting. I had thought to do an angel food cupcake, which isn't something I've ever made before. I found a recipe which seemed about the same as all the other recipes I saw, and I set out to make it. After separating a dozen eggs, whipping them to crazy frothy heights and watching them double in size in the oven, I determined that I must have done something wrong. They tasted like... nothing. And they had the texture of rubber. I am sure I beat them too much, or folded wrong, but whatever it was, they were terrible and flavorless.
Daisy, however, was obsessed with them. She got one because I figured "why not" and they were small and without anything that would be detrimental to her health. The next few hours she would look at me while standing between the living room and the kitchen, then when I would get up to see what she wanted, she would dash over to the counter where the cupcakes still were and spin around while looking up in excited anticipation. When I finally threw them away, she tried to get into the closed garbage can - something she has never shown any interest in ever before.
I am in class now, and she is loose in the house with the cupcakes in the trash. I am partially expecting to come home to a kitchen covered in trash and a dog bloated with angel food cupcakes.
At least someone liked them... I will make angel food again, but using a different recipe and paying closer attention to the combining process.
(FYI: The exact flavor of my angel food cupcake is being kept secret at this moment due to the cupcakes not having been entered yet.)
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