After last week's Coconut Bundt Cake I didn't want to do another Bundt, so I made Mocha-Walnut Marbled Cup Cakes instead. And in honor of Easter I topped my cupcakes with a chocolate ganache bird's nest loaded with pastel eggs (aka Jelly Belly). Too cute, the idea came from Simplebites.
Taste-wise the cakes were good but not great (I liked last week's Coconut cake better). I really couldn't taste the ground up walnuts that were added to the batter..
And I found the mocha-chocolate component a little bland (read: needs more chocolate).
Here are the cupcakes about to go into the oven.
And a freshly baked cuppie with steam still escaping. Hot, hot, hot.
The cup cakes were moist, dense and very heavy. In hind-sight baking them as cupcakes my not have been the wisest choice. I'm sure they would have tasted a lot better as a Bundt cake.
But they still looked cute even though they weren't the best tasting things in the world.
