Cake # 33 White Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Trying to type without the full use of both hands is so tedious that I don't understand why people never learned how to type correctly, or why my students use the two finger hunt and peck. However, here I am typing away without full use of my fingers because I am me. Let me explain if you haven't surmised the facts yourself from previous posts. One, I am the clumsiest person I know. Two, if there is a chance or calamity to happen, it will. Three, Ted refuses to let me use a knife unless he is in the same room. As I was finishing up my cake of the week, and getting ready to decorate the top of the cupcakes with melted white chocolate and then sprinkling them with chocolate sprinkles, I burnt one of my fingers severely and two others badly. Fact, melted chocolate burns like a bitch (sorry for the language mom). I had to melt a decorating pouch of white chocolate in the microwave in 15 second intervals, taking it out each time and kneading the chocolate pouch. By the third interval I was howling in pain and dancing around the kitchen in a mess of chocolate sprinkles that I had knocked on the floor in my mad dash around the kitchen. Betty Crocker should warn you that it is a possibility for the pouches of smoldering chocolate to leak flaming holes of chocolate. Of course, I should also probably learn to look at something before I grab it.

Here is the damage after it has been taken care of by yours truly. 

The burns on my fingers were so bad that my husband advocated for a trip to Patient First, but he also was supposed to be at a friend's house to watch a soccer game, so feeling bad I declined. Instead, I had him check online for what to do and to run to CVS to buy burn cream. Before he left, he told me I had to stick my hand in cool water for 15 minutes. As I was sitting there in the kitchen with my hand submerged in a bowl of cool water waiting for the 15 minute mark to come and pass, I began to wonder who decided that 15 minutes was the perfect time to stop the pains from a burn? I mean, did someone actually stand there and time a person with his or her burned hand in water? "Okay, five minutes have past, take your hand out of the water...does it still burn?" Then screaming ensued and they tried again in another minute? But after the ten minute mark hit, and I took my hand out of the water, and I still wanted to scream out in pain, I thought that either this wasn't going to work, or there was some truth to the "wait for 15 minutes" rule.

Needless to say, I had to improvise for the last step of the cupcakes. White chocolate icing was used instead of melted white chocolate and rainbow sprinkles instead of chocolate sprinkles. The rest of the cake called for the usual, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, backing soda, and white chocolate chips.

Here is what the cupcakes should have looked like:

 Here is what my modified cupcakes look like:

Anyway, next week, if I survive until then, I will be making butterscotch cupcakes.

Be safe!