I've made a lot of bagels in my time. I owned a bagel restaurant for years, and you would find me every bleary eyed morning kneading the dough and hand rolling all the fresh bagels for the day. I've since gotten out of the bagel game (Yay sleep!)...
There's something to be said for a cake that you can whip up at 9 o'clock on a Friday night, after a serious doozy of a week, when you need some baking
You prepare an easy pastry dough, pipe little balls onto your baking sheet with a pastry bag. After baking, you fill them with pastry cream, and spin caramel around the tower of puffs with a fork to create thin threads.
This Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes from Glorious Treats recipe contains sugar, vegetable oil, all purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa, whole milk and more.
Thank you for your comments in yesterday's post! It really cheered me up when I read them this morning after another rough night of little sleep. Lately, my eats have looked like this...