Chocolate olive oil and blood orange cupcakes
Cupcakes and muffins
The Cupcake Hero theme for February is olive oil. After I heard it, I figured it would be absolutely ridiculous if I did NOT enter. You know, seeing as this blog's name and header is practically and ode to the stuff. I was slightly worried, replacing the typical canola oil with olive oil in this chocolate cupcake recipe. I wanted to buy light olive oil (as I've heard it makes a good substitute for canola), but alas, Trader Joe's doesn't carry it, and I didn't want to make another stop for one measly thing. So pure it is. In the hierarchy of olive oils, there is extra virgin, which has the strongest flavor, followed by pure, and then light. I have a feeling there are probably some olive oil experts among us who could enlighten us as to the reason for these differences, and I'm not going to try to bs my way through an explanation. All things considered I probably should have done a second batch of these with canola oil to compare. The chocolate is a strong flavor, and the orange is a
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