I was making a cake for tomorrow’s Wilton cake decorating class and I was trying to get creative with a box of yellow cake mix. I’ve used different fillings before, so I thought I’d try to make marble cake instead. I was looking for an easy way to make it without using too much extra ingredients, and one of the recipe I found simply required me to mix melted unsweetened chocolate with 1/3 of the yellow cake batter. Simple enough, I thought, except that when I poured it into the 8X8 pan, the batter overflowed! So I quickly lined a muffin pan with paper cups and poured the remaining batter in to make cupcakes.
They turned out quite good, but I should probably have added more sugar and melted butter or sour cream so that they chocolate parts are more moist. For the cake itself, I halved the cake when it was done and cooled, and spread leftover chocolate buttercream as filling and then covered with a light layer of vanilla buttercream icing so that it is ready to be covered in fondant tomorrow in class. I’m excited!
As for the cupcakes, I filled a piping bag with both vanilla and chocolate buttercream and piped a swirl on top. The swirls look like soft-serve ice cream! Andy was happy to see them ready for his belly 
Dinner was simple today. Andy helped me wash the baby bok choys in cold water to revive the leaves and remove the dirt. This easy stir-fry was made by frying julienned ginger and baby bok choys with about 2 tbsp of hot oil. In less than 2 minutes the vegetables are ready and a mixture of vegetarian oyster sauce and water is poured into the wok. Season with a little salt, sugar and pepper and 2 tbsp of cornstarch+ cold water mixture to thicken the sauce. Remove from heat immediately.
