baking failures + one success

Delicious with vanilla butter frosting…

… or with a dusting of icing sugar.

If these vanilla bean buttermilk cupcakes had failed to turn out so beautifully this would be a post full of photos documenting my week of baking disasters.

First, I made a walnut and banana bread that didn’t rise and came out of the oven the consistency of a brick. So I decided to make pineapple muffins with some fresh sweet Queensland pineapples we picked up from the market… something yummy to get rid of the taste of the banana bread failure. I had enough batter to make two batches and they except for the one that I ate (all the while trying to convince myself they might be kind of ok) and the small bite John took out of one they followed the banana bread into the bin.

I used this recipe for the buttermilk cupcakes, next time I’ll make sure I have berries :)