SUGAR HIGH.

First of all, it is 12:39 am and this is probably the last thing that I should be doing at the moment. Other better options include showering, sleeping or doing my reading/homework. Nonetheless, I am blogging about making cupcakes two weekends ago. Earlier, I made a sketch of St. Basil's Cathedral in Russia just for random fun (which goes to show how (un)productive my night has been).

But I digress--

Two weeks ago, my friend asked me what I was doing on a Saturday morning/afternoon, and given that the only other thing that I would be doing would be studying or eating, I said I didn't have anything to do. My lack of sufficient activities on that day brought me to the other end of campus on a Saturday morning, where I participated in a cupcake baking extravaganza that resulted in pretty and delicious cupcakes from this website.

We made 2 of the cupcakes--the Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes with Whipped Cream (#3) and the Blueberry Cupcakes with Maple Glaze (#19).

Both cupcakes were delicious, though hard to judge side by side to one another (just because they were so different):

The flourless chocolate cupcakes with whipped cream (left) were very rich and mousse-like in texture, because we beat the egg whites separately before folding it in the rest of the mixture. At first, when we took them out from the oven we were very unsure about whether they was done already--because they seemed a bit squishy in texture--but after chilling them in the fridge for a while we figured they were good to eat (they truly were). Side note: homemade whipped cream is delicious--we had a lot left over and just ate it out of the bowl.

As for the blueberry cupcakes with maple glaze (right), they reminded me of blueberry muffins with sweet maple icing on them. We had a lot of maple icing left over as well, and ended up putting even more on the cupcakes (and of course just eating some of it ourselves).

After our fun baking and eating time, we wandered the halls of South Campus and distributed our baked goods to lucky people, whose Saturdays were significantly brightened by the experience (that was my social contribution to the world on that day).

When everything was over, I realized that I was on a food coma/sugar high combination. It was fun. Will blog if more cupcake baking happens (next up is filling-filled cupcakes).