Day 310 – Avocado Cupcakes

TGIF!  Right?  Yes!  It is Friday.  Such a good day of the week.  And today is especially beautiful outside, here in NYC.  Today I wanted something different.  Not necessarily healthy, but not necessarily unhealthy either.  Something I could eat and still want to go outside and enjoy the sunshine.  These Avocado Cupcakes (recipe below from Will Cook for Smiles) caught my eye.  A little different, a little sweet, a little savory and a little…well…green??  Why not?!

    

The cupcakes are smooth and creamy and borderline greasy.  They have a smooth, lightly sweet avocado flavor.

The frosting is smooth and creamy. It has a sweet vanilla cream cheese flavor.  Simple.  Sweet.  Cream cheese.

    

The cupcake is light and smooth.  An ideal texture for a cupcake.  The frosting is the strongest flavor.  The cupcake gives it an almost fake taste though. Like it was a flavoring, and not real.  It’s very interesting.  Not bad, but any means, just interesting.

Scoring Sheet:

• Cupcake Taste: 3

• Frosting Taste: 4

• Overall Taste: 3.5

• Appearance: 3.5
• Ease of Making: 4
• TOTAL: 18

RECIPE

Avocado Cupcakes (recipe from Will Cook for Smiles)

Cupcakes:

• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ripe avocado
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup of milk + 1 tbsp

Frosting:

• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 cup powder sugar
• 1/2 cup of butter, room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla

For directions visit Will Cook for Smiles.

*Tomorrow: Root Beer Float Cupcakes*