I saw this gorgeous and seemingly simple recipe for Oreo cheese cupcakes in Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes cookbook and decided I was going to make some. I was so sure it was going to be an enormous success that I took photos of every step of the procedure because I intended to post the recipe with the photos in my food blog.
Well, that’s the only photo I’m going to show the Internet at this point. The cheese cupcakes were, well… I don’t want to talk dirty so I won’t tell you how Alex described them.
The worst part? The day I baked the cheese cupcakes, Alex’s classmates came home with her. They had been coming home with her for three days during the week of their midterm exams when they all got off at lunchtime instead of late in the afternoon. And I had been wowing them each day with the main dishes that I served for lunch.
Then, the Oreo cheese cupcakes happened and I think they changed their impression that I was a good cook. I saw their faces and they really looked like they finished the cupcakes just to be polite. Oh, my. So embarrassing.
But, honestly, the thing about cooking or baking is that the moment you try a new recipe, you’re already on unfamiliar territory. People think that experienced cooks don’t mess up but that’s not true. Some attempts succeed; others don’t. That’s why cooking is forever a learning experience. Okay, maybe, I’m just making excuses. Whatever. At least Sam liked the cupcakes. She didn’t seem to mind how they looked, she didn’t associate their appearance with anything dirty, and she ate them with gusto. That girl has really good taste. 
is that what’s called a spin? he he. seriously, it gives us wannabes hope if experienced cooks still mess it up. i’m hoping to learn to be a pastry chef some day and i will keep this truism in mind.
Anything new is an experiment. In National Treasure, Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) paraphrased something that Thomas Edison supposedly said about inventing the light bulb: Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton-thread filament for the incandescent light bulb. And when asked about it, he said “I didn’t fail; I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb,” but he only needed one way to make it work.
Though I love and adore Oreo cookies, I’ve never enjoyed them served, cooked, or baked in any other form aside from being in ice cream and being dipped in milk.
Funny that I never ever dipped them in milk and I didn’t know it was a popular practice until I saw it done in a TV ad.