Today I made some pink champagne cupcakes that used regular flour with this recipe. I can't believe how hard it was to find one that didn't use vegetable shortening or a box of cake mix (which also contains vegetable shortening AND feels like cheating). I was pretty excited that they turned out this gorgeous...
BUT (huge but), when I ate one later, it was disappointingly dense. The batter was weird, really thick, which should have clued me in. You're supposed to fold in beaten egg whites, but it's hard to fold something with the consistency of cookie dough...not sure what happened there.
The frosting, however, is delicious. In the future I'll use turbinado sugar on top rather than these sprinkles. The cupcakes looked like animal cookies, which doesn't exactly scream "hey, I've got booze inside!".
Side tracked photo of my stove...
