-it's a joyful and happy thing for me. Hub turns 56 on Christmas Eve, and as long as we have been together, there is a conscious effort to separate birthday from Christmas. He wanted Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cherry cookies, and I said NO...I can make cookies and scones for him any day. He is a chocolate monster...he LOVES chocolate...and I thought I was baaad. Nope, a day without chocolate is a day without sunshine for him. We have bowls of dark MM's, dark Dove, and there is a Lindt dark chocolate reindeer sitting on his nightstand next to a Weck jar filled with dark covered almonds, cherries and blueberries...
do YOU THINK he LOVES chocolate?
Anyhow, since we are traveling tonight to family, it was important that these got made. I just got a new batch of Pernigotti Cocoa, and tweaked my one recipe...subbed sour cream for the buttermilk and added a tsp of espresso powder to make the cocoa sing! I had to taste test a misfit cupcake, and I must say the cake is AWESOME!!!
I filled them with a truffle recipe made with Guittard bittersweet chocolate pastilles, heavy cream and unsalted butter, then they were topped off with caramel meringue buttercream and vanilla meringue buttercream with Valrhona dark chocolate crunch pearls...the house wafts of dark chocolate, sugar and butter. If we weren't ready for a birthday before , we are now!
Happy travels wherever you may be going, be safe and enjoy your families and GOOD food :-)
Truffle filled Dark chocolate cupcakes with meringue buttercream
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