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i remember those hostess cupcakes fondly. but sadly, they just don’t taste the same anymore, and not in a good way. i don’t know if the ingredients have changed – or if it’s much more likely that i have changed. i think we tend to remember things from the distant past with such nostalgia that nothing (including the same exact item) can measure up to our memories.
i felt like making some cupcakes like those that i remember… but with a much more grown up flavor: dark chocolate, and not so sickly-sweet. it just so happened that my brother was coming over, so i thought he would get a kick out of it if i made him some “un-hostess” cupcakes. (he has an odd sense of humor, just like me.) instead of the curly white piping on the top of the cupcake (like the one “normal” looking cupcake i made in the picture above), i decorated the tops with some rude un-hostess like phrases.
11. line muffin pans with 24 paper liners. pour the batter into each cup, about 3/4 full.
12. bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool. make sure the cupcakes are completely cool to the touch before filling and frosting.
13. while the cupcakes are baking, make the cream filling. whisk the milk and 5 t. of flour in a saucepan over medium heat for several minutes until thickened and smooth. set aside and cool. do not make the filling until this flour/milk mixture is completely cooled.
14. cream the butter and sugar. add the vanilla, and beat in the cool flour/milk mixture. using an electric hand-mixer, beat this for approximately 5-7 minutes until light and fluffy.
15.  insert a star tip, and fill the rest of the bag with the cream filling.
16. cut a small slit into the top of each cupcake (and downward almost until the bottom of the cupcake) with a butter knife.
17. push the star tip into the slit, and push filling into the center of each cupcake. you can do this about three times along the length of the slit to ensure you have enough cream filling in the center of each cupcake.
18. frost the cupcakes with the chocolate ganache.
19. to pipe the decor or words onto the cupcake, you can either put the remaining cream filling into another pastry bag fitted with a #2 writing tip (like i did below), or use commercial cookie decorating icing. if you don’t want to bother with a piping bag or commercial cookie icing… the really easy way to do this would be to put the cream frosting into another gallon sized ziploc bag (a sturdy freezer bag), and snip off the tiniest corner so that you have a make-shift thin writing tip.
20. to decorate: if you want the “nice” version, pipe some squiggly lines across the top hostess cupcake style. if you want to be funny, you can do as i did, and write some un-hostess like phrases across the top. to store overnight, put them in a large covered container – but don’t allow the lid to touch the top of the cupcakes otherwise your decorations will smudge.
of course, i took this opportunity to pipe a bunch of rude phrases… the ultimate in un-hostessness.

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