Chronicles of Baking: You'll definitely want S'More of these cupcakes

It's been FOREVER since I last posted and it had been FOREVER since I baked it seemed. I've been trying new concoctions and they have been good but not great. Last week I made S'More cupcakes from the recipe at MarthaStewart.com, which is the recipe from the owner of Trophy Cakes. Never heard of it but if it was good enough for Martha, it must be good! The recipe starts out with making graham cracker crusts for the cupcakes. The recipe did not make enough for 24 cupcakes so I had to wing it make some extra by guesstimate. I also found a good use for shot glasses, pressing graham cracker crust into cupcake papers :) Once you put the crust in the papers, you sprinkle them with shaved chocolate, or in my case, chocolate chips and bake them until the crusts are golden, approx. 5 minutes.

Then you add in the "soupy" chocolate batter and sprinkle with the extra graham cracker crust and bake. They kinda sank but I just used it as an opportunity to add LOTS of marshmallow frosting. It was like a crater filled with marshmallowy goodness. Anyways, I baked them and they turned out ok but then I had a baking FAIL. I tried to make a mini cake in the mini cake pans I have yet to use and the cake bubbled over and created a gooey mess in the oven...miserable.

Then I went on to make the "marshmallow" topping. After watching some Food Network I deduced this was more of a meringue than a marshmallow but then it wouldn't fit the S'More theme so it's marshmallow. Basically it's egg white (I used the liquid kind from the milk section) sugar, and vanilla. Pretty tasty.

The frosting was a mess to work with but I piped them all and then the hubs toasted them with the kitchen torch. I think he enjoyed it too much and for the next few days he was torching almost everything that came out of the kitchen, and even some things that were not food, like using it to light candles. It was fun to see it torched because it puffs and then turns golden brown. We had to be careful not to set the wrappers on fire...
Anyways, they turned out good and the chocolate chips in the bottom added that need S'more essence.

These cupcakes leave a lot of room to expand on. Just like how I discovered last year you can make S'mores with Reese's PB Cups...maybe next time..