The recipe, simply put, asks for a baked cake to be mashed and mixed with cream cheese frosting. Then they are to be rolled ino little balls for further manipulation. It didn't sound like we could screw it up.
Then we had to push the balls into a little cookie cutter half its size and let the rest bulge out the mould so that it resembles a cupcake. We had probably like 40 balls to do, and it was quite tiring, but it was also something we felt we couldn't screw up.
Afterwards we were supposed to coat the mini cupcakes with different coloured candy melts, but due to Phoon Huat Pte Ltd's limitations, we had to make do with chocolate buttons, which of course, failed terribly.
They wouldn't solidify enough to be kept at room temperature, and the dipping chocolate soon burnt in the little pot, and we were sad. In fact, I was so sad I didn't realise I had another chocolate mole above my lip. (Not beside the nose. That is the real deal.)
We ran out of ideas, and out of time, so we kept the rest of the uncoated little trouble-makers in the freezer to fight another day.
Another day came and with fresh hands and fresh minds we were determined to succeed this time, arming ourselves with pre-made icing to replace the candy coating (which, to our knowledge, according to Mae the pattisier, is available at a Bukit Timah shop, but too inaccessible for us chaufferless beings).
We thought icing was idiot-proof, but I guess we are pretty formidable idiots, because that didn't work either! It wouldn't harden soon enough and the cupcakes soon turned into slushy things again. Baking it was worse, clearly.
We were pretty disillusioned, but no g no g, so we just baked the whole damned thing in the oven, and ended up with mini-cupcake-sized BROWNIES, that took two whole long damned days and 50 bucks to make. YAY!
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