A secret ingredient...

I'm a bit of a cupcake fiend and this week I baked up a batch for my managers birthday. I didn't have the money to spend on gourmet ingredients or decorations so it was very much a store cupboard raiding event. I also needed to suck up a bit: my contract is up at the end of the month but I could really do with them extending it...

Thankfully I had a cupboard full of cooking chocolate and the basics for chocolate cakes and I found  a certain something something that would top them off nicely. A bottle of Starbucks black cherry syrup. Delicious in coffee, even better mixed with icing sugar, butter and a splash of milk to make a flipping fabulous frosting! With the chocolate sponge they had a bit of a Black Forest Gateaux vibe going on. Retro! In hingsight I should have plonked a cherry on top. I have a bag in the freezer and everything. Silly me.

I implore anyone who bakes to snap up a bottle in your favourite flavour straight away at your local 'Bucks. Or live dangerously and try one of these bad boys: COFFEE SYRUPS

Over and out!
B
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