January’s Guilty Pleasure’s theme was the fantasmical “Night of One Thousand Freddies," marking the 40th anniversary of Queen. Ah-mazing.
To give a bit of background into falling in love with this theme; when I was a wee one I got a massive Sony 5-disc CD changer for my 12th birthday. With my shiny new present unwrapped, clearly the next step was to head down to Caldor’s to buy a few CDs and give it a test drive.
Contrary to my cheesy taste in music back then, it wasn't the Bangles, NKOTB, or Salt ‘n Pepa that I headed straight for. Yes people, heavily influenced by 3 older siblings and growing up on a diet of Classic Rock and Entenmann's - it was Queen’s Greatest Hits I.
Considering the homage that was due, I was posed with a basic (but difficult) question. What on earth type of cupcake might represent Freddie? Could I dress it up in drag ala I Want to Break Free? Frost them in black and white in honour of Freddie's magnificent outfit in We Are the Champions…
Thinking about it long and hard (about 10 minutes whereby I made the question my facebook status and waited for suggestions), I decided really – was there anything more iconic than Freddie’s beautiful moustache?
With that I prepped some Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes (a nice staple, erring slightly on the dense side) from the Martha Stewart Cupcake cookbook, used some Vanilla Buttercream which was leftover and had been in my freezer for about 6 weeks (still tasting...parfait), and whipped up some Chocolate, Sour Cream, & Cream Cheese frosting (also from Miss Stewart but with reduced fat SC and CC instead) for the perfect 'stache.
The chocolate frosting ended up a little thinner than normal, making the consistency similar to that of a thick pudding (which then became a self-fufilling prophecy as couldn't stop shovelling it into my mouth like it WAS pudding). I bordered on disgusting. I was feeling a little Chunk-like from Goonies. Particularly because I'd forgotten to reduce the recipe by 3/4 (as originally planned) and had a massive bowl that could have frosted about 4 dozen cupcakes let alone decorate 2 dozen with mini-moustaches. Good thing using up the Vanilla Buttercream freed up that space in the freezer, eh?
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