French Toast Cupcakes

My bestie bought me a cookbook at Christmas titled Eat Me! by Xanthe Milton.  I should tell you first that I look at the book all the time.  Her stories and images are truly unique.  Think Little 'Red Riding Hood bakes', mixed with 'Alice in Wonderland goes to a tea and cupcake party'.  After months of just looking at the book, I decided to make her French Toast Cupcakes. 

The cupcake part is made up of melted butter, flour, sugar, maple syrup and cinnamon.

While these were baking in the oven, I was upstairs playing with my cat.  When I came downstairs to check on them, my house smelled of french toast.  It was absolutely incredible! 

I didn't follow Eat Me's icing exactly.  She calls for brown food colouring, which is why her icing has that brown colour.  Instead, I added cinnamon and maple syrup to the cream cheese frosting.

I have to say that when you bite into this cupcake, it does taste like french toast.  It's a cinnamony cupcake that is light and moist! 

I have also decided that unless requested, I will be icing my cupcakes the old fashioned way.  I find that when the icing is piped, there is simply too much icing when you take a bite.  And although it looks pretty, it is basically a mouth full of icing.  It goes back to my theory of the trend in the bakery world where all that matters is the looks.  However, if it is requested, I have no problems piping the icing on and having a beautiful and high icing swirl.
I cannot wait to try baking more cupcakes from Eat Me!