Channeling the Strawberry Shortcake spirit

Cupcake adventures, part three: chocolate and vanilla angel cupcakes with strawberry frosting.

Here they are just out of the oven before I frosted them. A bit underfilled.  
Freshly frosted.

Greetings, cardioid!


I used the vanilla and chocolate quick oil cake recipes from my mother's Joy of Cooking, which are not technically angel cake, but do contain plasma - sorry, meringue - so I have decided to call them that. It's a relatively healthy recipe. Back when I had a terror of trans fat, they were the only cake recipes I felt safe making. A little more flavor might improve them, but for a light cupcake they're nice.

The strawberry frosting recipe I used made me angry, so I'm not posting a link. I had to add way more sugar than it told me I did, just so it'd be thick enough to spread. I left it kind of thin rather than sweetening it further, but it was still too sweet for me. Also, when I finished the first box of powdered sugar I didn't know we had more, so I added a little bit of normal sugar (bad move) before my mother told me there was more powdered. As a result you could kind of taste the grains of the ordinary sugar in it. Grr. It still wasn't terrible, because it did have fresh strawberries in it, but I didn't really like it.

So, the lesson: Just because a recipe is on the internets doesn't mean it's any good. I am going to be more careful to make sure I use recipes only from reputable sites and avoid submission-based sites like Cooks.com and All Recipes.