Elaine's Cupcake Cookies

Today I got the fancy notion in my head to make mini cupcakes.  We were going to a game night party at a friends and I imagined bringing the cutest little mint chocolate cupcakes that people could walk by and pop in their mouths.

Everything started off great, the batter came along nice, I cooked them perfectly, and then it all went downhill from there....

Apparently cupcakes rise a whole lot more than my muffins do, so they spilled over the top of the muffin tin.  I tried to get them out in one piece, but wasn't meeting with much success.





So then I started intentionally lobbing off the tops in hopes of having something to take to the party with me.  Which reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine tries to start a muffin top business.  So in honor of that show, I named these after her and her (un)success




Then I took my cupcake tops and frosted them, but they looked so boring being white.  And sadly enough, I don't have any sprinkles in the house.  I know horrors of horrors not having sprinkles as a mom!

Phil told me to add some food coloring to my extra frosting and add some decorative touches to the 'cookies' to jazz them up a bit.  Yeah....he was talking to the girl who in 28.5 years of life has yet to successfully decorate a cake.  Got the frosting colored nicely, but couldn't get it to look nice so I handed the froster tool over to him and left the kitchen.

I gotta admit by this point I was so disappointed and grumpy at what was rapidly becoming my failure of a project that I had to escape and blow some steam.  So I went to my desk and cut apart some conversation starter cards.  After my hands got tired I went back to see how Phil was doing.

He wasn't having a whole lot of success either.  My frosting was too thick for the decorator, so he tried adding some milk.  But that made it too runny, so he tried adding some flour.  In the end, he did manage to get to them look decent enough to take to the party.

The sad story doesn't end there.  While loading up the kids in the van, the platter makes it out but gets knocked over and Elaine's Cupcake Cookies get dumped on the floor of the van.  The frosting gets smudged and we deemed them too embarrassing to take to the party.

But there is hope for these poor sad goodies.  The hostess told me to turn them into cake balls.  A practical solution to all the 'bottoms' that I have left and a whole platter of tops too.  So perhaps tomorrow there will be a happy ending after all!