This past week at work we have hosted the NCAA Sweet 16 and today we will be hosting the Elite 8. I really had no idea how much people loved college basketball until I had to go through the past few days. We had building VIPs and the Mayor of Boston in our suites and guess who got asked to make the desserts!!! hehe. I made pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting and maple jelly beans, cream puffs filled with vanilla bean whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate, mini warm chocolate chip cookie cups and chocolate cheesecake with whipped cream and chocolate basketball designs. The chocolate designs are easy and I am going to tell you how!
1. Melt dark chocolate over a double boiler. JUST CHOCOLATE no butter no cream just chocolate. The darker the better it makes the chocolate shinier when it hardens.
2. Let chocolate cool slightly and put into a pastry bag.
3. Line a sheet pan or cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silpat.
4. Cut a tiny bit off the bottom of the pastry bag, just large enough to write with.
5. Draw or write whatever you want! For the NCAA I drew basketball hoops and nets, basketballs, wrote out NCAA, Duke, Villanova, Pitt and Xavier and did some fun little designs.
6. When finished put your tray in the freezer to harden.
7. Once hard peel off paper or silpat slowly and decorate cakes and cupcakes as you wish!! Just be careful they are fragile.
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