The Cupcake Addict's Cupcake Collection

If I had to do Rocky Road again, I would rethink it…

1.  The cake turned out to be really light and tender.  Filling it made it a bit unstable.

2.  I used a Cooks Illustrated recipe for the icing.  This turned out to be a little heavy for the light cake.  It’s like a ganache with butter added and it hardened up quite a bit.  A description on Chowhound said that it was like the “stuff in the can”.   I should have just used a whipped ganache or an American butter cream.    I took a break to eat dinner and came back to finish icing the cakes and it was too hard to work with.  I just dipped the remaining cakes in melted chocolate.

3.  I mixed the peanuts into the icinge.  This wasn’t very attractive and might be borderline gross.  After I dumped the nuts in, I thought, “How am I going to pipe this?”

Maybe it will all seem better in the morning.

Dark chocolate cake filled with marshmallow fluff and topped with chocolate peanut frosting and marshmallow drizzle.