Next adventure!

...And I do mean adventure: French Toast and Bacon Cupcakes! While image-researching ideas for my next birthday project (birthday cupcakes for Lauren), I came across a curious picture of cupcakes with a piece of bacon stuck on top. [See: here.] After cringing a little, then dawning on the admission that I love bacon with maple syrup, I thought, "Why not?"

Loving the idea, but not married to the recipe, I plan on making it my own. Rather than having bacon merely as a garnish, I took an idea I got from a waffle house I had visited where the bacon went into the waffle batter. Next, there will be no extract of maple in my buttercream. In my house, we'll be going for the real thing. I am thinking that the maple syrup can be cooked to a hard ball stage and incorporated into a mousseline, just like regular sugar syrup. Here's to hoping...I'll keep you posted!