Delectables with Dan Presents: Cinnibun Boye
Why would you make that kind of cupcake to both celebrate and acknowledge your boss-soon to be former boss's time with you? Well, I got one answer for ya. Better Call Saul. In the flashbacks, we see him as a man called Gene and he's currently the manager of a Cinnabun somewhere out in the Midwest. (or at least I think it's the Midwest; I've always wondered why the Midwest is in America and the Middle East is all the way the fuck across the world. But this isn't the time for a geography lesson, it's a baking blog.) Since he's a manager and a manager is leaving, I figured I'd tie the two together and make something yummy. I don't really know why I've put them together, but I have, probably just the manager and the leaving thing, but I digress. Let's make some Cinnabon cupcakes! You can also make this as a simple cake, but topped with your favourite cinnamon bun flavour. Maybe I should do this one? Do a strawberry one for Valentine's Day? I already have three ideas for it in the works, so maybe do a 3 part special. Fuck me, I'm getting distracted. And these are vegan.
Let's bake, shall we?
You Will Need:
1 yellow cake mix- 1 single-serving cup of apple sauce (reduced sugar, vegetable oil & water)
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
4 tablespoons light brown sugar (I used the Splenda brand to keep the sugar low)
1 tub vanilla icing
1-2 teaspoons cinnamon for the icing
In a large mixing bowl combine the ingredients to make a yellow cake. Using an electric hand mixer you're going to want to blend everything together; you don't want any lumps in the batter. Once that's done mix in the light brown sugar and the spices, give a quick stir and then back to the electric hand mixer. Let the batter settle for a minute or two while you line a muffin tray with little paper liners. It doesn't matter what colour or pattern they are. If you don't have the little paper condoms, make sure that each little muffin cup in the tray is well greased or else they'll stick and it will be a giant mess. Do we want that? No. Ladle the batter into the cups, filling them about 3/4 of the way full. When they bake up we want them to have nice puffy tops. Aw, Puffy <3 Nonono. Getting distracted again. Jesus Christ, do I have ADD? I can't focus on a goddamn fucking thing. Right, put into bake for 20 minutes at 350F. You want them to be a nice light brown colour. Make sure they are fully baked before removing them from the oven.
While we are using a store-bought icing we need to make little adjustments to things. You can also use a homemade vegan icing for this, which I actually did I just winged the recipe on it, which is why I'm using an alternate version, rather than wining it on here and having it not turn out so great. Man only gets lucky a few times, you know what I mean? You want your cupcakes to be cool before you ice them. I'm sick of having to say this with every baking blog that I do that involves icing, but I have to; there are too many morons out there with a high-speed internet connection. Alright, while they are cooking down, we can mix up our icing.
With this method, you want to scrape all the icing out of the tub into a decent sized mixing bowl. I'd say a medium-sized one. Add the cinnamon to the icing, then taking the electric hand-mixer, blend the spice into the icing. You want it to be thicc and creamy. If you want more of a cinnamon taste add a little bit more.
Carefully spoon into an icing bag that already has the tip inside. I think I used a star tip to do this one. I can't remember. I'm not good with the types. I should really learn them, make myself a little chart to help me remember them. In the centre of the cupcake, place the tip-lol I don't know why I'm laughing at this, but I am. Okay, back to icing after the laughter break. Squeeze the back, letting the icing pile up, work your way around the layers, creating a nice little icing mountain. You don't need any fancy wrist work to make this one work. Once you've iced all of the cupcakes, if you feel it, you can add some sprinkles. While rainbow ones would be appropriate for the bigot, I didn't have enough of them to do all the cupcakes, so I ended up using the little leaf ones.
Best of all? All the other guys at work loved the cupcakes! They raved they were amazing. A few of them had more than one. The validation that I was good was amazing. When I brought baked shit to my last job the girls all loved them. I'm gonna be bringing things in for the upcoming holiday too. All of the fellas are excited for this. The cupcakes will be featured on this blog. One of them I did last year, the Bobble and Squeak cupcake, so that one will not be featured again on the blog. However, in the final Valentine's day baking blog, I will try to remember to link it, so you guys can enjoy that chocolate chip cookie dough filled cupcake!
And this is me giving him the middle finger. A tasty one, but a fuck you, none the less. Telling me he'll handle my complaints, but months later nothing's happened. There's no justice. He can break the rules and the law and get a promotion. Fuck off. He can come at me if he reads this and doesn't like what I've penned. Blow me.
Let's bake, shall we?
You Will Need:
1 yellow cake mix- 1 single-serving cup of apple sauce (reduced sugar, vegetable oil & water)
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
4 tablespoons light brown sugar (I used the Splenda brand to keep the sugar low)
1 tub vanilla icing
1-2 teaspoons cinnamon for the icing
In a large mixing bowl combine the ingredients to make a yellow cake. Using an electric hand mixer you're going to want to blend everything together; you don't want any lumps in the batter. Once that's done mix in the light brown sugar and the spices, give a quick stir and then back to the electric hand mixer. Let the batter settle for a minute or two while you line a muffin tray with little paper liners. It doesn't matter what colour or pattern they are. If you don't have the little paper condoms, make sure that each little muffin cup in the tray is well greased or else they'll stick and it will be a giant mess. Do we want that? No. Ladle the batter into the cups, filling them about 3/4 of the way full. When they bake up we want them to have nice puffy tops. Aw, Puffy <3 Nonono. Getting distracted again. Jesus Christ, do I have ADD? I can't focus on a goddamn fucking thing. Right, put into bake for 20 minutes at 350F. You want them to be a nice light brown colour. Make sure they are fully baked before removing them from the oven.While we are using a store-bought icing we need to make little adjustments to things. You can also use a homemade vegan icing for this, which I actually did I just winged the recipe on it, which is why I'm using an alternate version, rather than wining it on here and having it not turn out so great. Man only gets lucky a few times, you know what I mean? You want your cupcakes to be cool before you ice them. I'm sick of having to say this with every baking blog that I do that involves icing, but I have to; there are too many morons out there with a high-speed internet connection. Alright, while they are cooking down, we can mix up our icing.
With this method, you want to scrape all the icing out of the tub into a decent sized mixing bowl. I'd say a medium-sized one. Add the cinnamon to the icing, then taking the electric hand-mixer, blend the spice into the icing. You want it to be thicc and creamy. If you want more of a cinnamon taste add a little bit more.
Carefully spoon into an icing bag that already has the tip inside. I think I used a star tip to do this one. I can't remember. I'm not good with the types. I should really learn them, make myself a little chart to help me remember them. In the centre of the cupcake, place the tip-lol I don't know why I'm laughing at this, but I am. Okay, back to icing after the laughter break. Squeeze the back, letting the icing pile up, work your way around the layers, creating a nice little icing mountain. You don't need any fancy wrist work to make this one work. Once you've iced all of the cupcakes, if you feel it, you can add some sprinkles. While rainbow ones would be appropriate for the bigot, I didn't have enough of them to do all the cupcakes, so I ended up using the little leaf ones.
And this is me giving him the middle finger. A tasty one, but a fuck you, none the less. Telling me he'll handle my complaints, but months later nothing's happened. There's no justice. He can break the rules and the law and get a promotion. Fuck off. He can come at me if he reads this and doesn't like what I've penned. Blow me.
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