Cupcake Lady!
I'm known as the Cupcake Lady in a certain circle. This is the third year my friends Corey and Marcy have hosted a Crawfish Boil/Joint Birthday Bash, and as usual, my cupcakes have been requested. This time I made PB&J and Coconut cupcakes. My trend lately has been making desserts and pastries that I didn't like very much or eat as a child. First, the variation on the Pop-Tarts , and now PB&J. See, I didn't like jelly, and occasionally eat it as an adult on toast (mostly after a night of drinking when we hit the 24 hour breakfast spot), but I decided to make a cupcake version. Instead of using jelly, I cooked some grape juice with agar agar to make a fluid gel. I baked a vanilla cupcake, cut a cone out of the top, filled the hole with the gel, then topped them with a peanut butter buttercream. Not peanut butter and confectioner's sugar, but the real deal! I also tried out a coconut cupcake recipe I've been sitting on for a while ...