Barefoot Contessa

 

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Joanna O.

Los Angeles, CA

Ina, you let me down.  I thought that I could rely on your recipes for fool-proof baking success.  You made me cry.  
All I wanted to do was bake some cupcakes.  Your birthday cake recipe looked promising, but I should have listened to my inner voice telling me that 6 eggs was too many for such a cake.  With that proportion of eggs, the cake was bordering on sponge cake and we all know that I cannot get a sponge cake to succeed.  So, despite my best efforts, I had a souffle-like disaster with my cupcakes.  
And the frosting.  I should have guessed that chocolate and heavy cream, melted together and then whipped would not thicken appropriately.  Indeed, further research confirmed that a frosting comprised of those ingredients needs to be cooked for 30 minutes to thicken.  
So, Ina, for the sunken-funky-cupcakes with the runny frosting, you get one star!

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