A Wrestling Themed Bake Off
Aside from knitting, I also dabble in baking. I'm no Martha Stewart but I can make a pretty mean cupcake! For the past two years I have entered Bake and Destroy's wrestling themed bake off, Sugar Slam III.
Last year's submission was dubbed Candy Land Cage Match, paying homage to Beth Phoenix, who happened to be judging last year's contest. This year, although he's not a judge, I decided to reincarnate Hulk Hogan's Pastamania! in cupcake form.
For those of you not familiar with Hulk Hogan's Pastamania!, it was a restaurant which opened at the Mall of America, in the mid 90's, that didn't get very far. I thought I would pay homage to Hulk Hogan's penchant for pasta, while meshing it with my love of pastry.
Pastamaniacs look no further, for I have just the cupcake for you!
THE HULKSTER'S PASTAMANIA! CUPCAKES:
INGREDIENTS:
Yellow cake mix
Vanilla frosting
Cocoa Powder
Ferrero Rochers
White Chocolate Bar
Strawberry Perseves
(Low Sugar) *the color is the best*
Yellow food coloring
*not shown
Cupcake Liners
Ziplock bag
-Go ahead and bake your cupcakes as specified on the box.
-Tint the frosting with 1/2 tsp of the cocoa powder and three drops of yellow food coloring.
-Frost cupcakes.
-Put remaining frosting in the Ziplock bag with a small corner snipped off.
-Arrange cupcakes and pipe liberally with frosting.
-Toss the Ferrero Rochers in the strawberry preserves
-Spoon some preserves onto cupcakes and place the "meatballs" onto each cupcake.
-Grate some white chocolate over the top and you're done :)
Happy Baking!
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