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I used the same recipe as before. Only this time I added more strawberries and strawberry extract. It made the flavor pop, but unfortunately, it made the batter too loose (the strawberries were fresh and just washed, so they were probably holding a lot of water). I also overfilled the cups and undercooked them.

At the same time, the chocolate icing set a lot faster than before and was starting to loose it's spreadability by the time the cupcakes cooled.

The outcome was cooked cupcake batter that had poured over the cup and actually created a shell around the wrapper. But the cupcake it self was crumbly cause of the loose batter and undercooking. So when I tried to apply the thick icing, they all fell apart.

After ruining about five I finally figured out a pattern to gently icing them and peel off the batter shell. Then I put them in the fridge for a day and a half (I pulled them from the Night Hawks menu). When I brought them to work as rejects, I guess they'd dried out some, because they held their shape and everyone liked them. So it sort of worked out in the end?

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