Last night we had a small group over for movie night (we watched 8 Femmes, a strange but entertaining French musical murder mystery) and I decided at the last minute to make some cupcakes, because who doesn't like cupcakes?
I have been wanting to make something with cardamom because it is a lovely spice, so when I found this recipe online, it sounded perfect. The cupcakes themselves turned out well, not too sweet at all, which I found enjoyable. The cupcakes would have been lovelier still if I had been able to find bananas that were super ripe (brown!), and I think I will try it that way last time to see if it makes the difference I think it will. I used more cardamom than the 1/2 tsp that the recipe called for, and they were spicy, the texture of the cupcake was lighter than I thought it would been when spooning out the batter into the muffin tin. It looked like banana bread batter, but did end up being lighter than that when the end result came out of the oven. I frosted them with a cream cheese frosting that I whipped up by hand. I much prefer making my own frosting because I like being able to control how sweet it is (I like it when it is NOT loaded down with sugar). We weren't able to wait for the cupcakes to fully cool, so great was our cupcake lust. Instead, the cupcakes were consumed when still warm, with the frosting spooned liberally onto the cupcakes and licked off of fingers as we messily consumed them.
I also made tacos last night, and when I found myself with hunger pains later in the evening due to heavy concentration on my German paper, I rummaged in the kitchen looking for leftovers. The sole remaining taco shell was broken in half (lengthwise) and so I made an open-faced taco. For future reference, the open-faced taco is extremely difficult to eat without getting it all over you. It is delicious, but inferior to actual tacos in that actual tacos lend themselves to the possibility of being eaten without simultaneously ending up all over your lap.
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