I am not a procrastinator on all things, but there are some things that I procrastinate with until the last minute. Writing my freelance articles is one. It seems like my best written articles come to me when I have waited until the very last minute to write them. I do my best work with a tight deadline. Unloading the dishwasher is something else I am great at procrastinating on. It isn’t like unloading the dishwasher is a hard task and it only takes a few minutes to complete, but I always procrastinate to the very last minute on that chore!
When I was growing up my mom would leave my older sister and I at home during the days of summer. She was getting her Masters degree and took classes during the day. Each day, she would leave us a list of chores we would have to get done while she was gone. It never failed that I would start my chores at 4pm and she was expected home at 4:30. I mastered the art of procrastination at a young age, and that art still sticks with me today!
This recipe I am about to share with you… I made in December, right around the holidays. I have been meaning to share it with you for some time because it is sinfully good, but kept procrastinating about it. Something else comes up to write about, or I would push it aside meaning to do it later and then forget. Now, it is the end of February, and the magazine I got this from is no longer in print. It was a Better Homes and Gardens special interest publication called Christmas Baking. It is a magazine stuffed full of wonderful dessert recipes for the holidays or any time of the year. Twenty-five amazing cakes, pages and pages of chocolate desserts, wonderful pie recipes… this cooking magazine is a keeper that I know I will turn to again and again.
If you stumble across this magazine or the magazine it was previously published as (Simply Perfect Holiday Baking 2005) I highly recommend it! You’ll open it up and won’t procrastinate at all on finding favorites that you want to make. Now, writing about them may be a totally different story!
Colorado Chocolate Pieces
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 1 1/3 cups hot water
- 2 tablespoons instant coffee crystals
- 1 box 18.3 ounce chocolate fudge cake mix
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 20 soft caramel candies unwrapped
Filling and Topping
- 1 container 16 ounce chocolate frosting
- 1 jar 7 ounce marshmallow crème, chilled
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ cup sweetened flaked coconut toasted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour 20 cups in two 12 cup muffins pans. For the cupcakes stir the 1 1/3 cups hot water and coffee crystals in large bowl until crystals dissolve. Let cool. Add cake mix, oil, and eggs to coffee in a large bowl. Beat 2 minutes or until well blended.
- Fill each muffin cup halfway with better. Place one caramel in center of each. Pour remaining batter over caramels. Bake for 12 minutes or until cakes puff. Cool cupcakes in pans on racks for 15 minutes. Carefully remove cupcakes from pans.
- To assemble, cut off tops of cupcakes; reserve tops. Frost cupcake bottoms with chocolate frosting. Spoon 1 tablespoon of chilled marshmallow crème on each frosted bottom. Replace cake tops. Dust with cocoa powder, sprinkle with coconut, and serve. Makes 20 cupcakes.
Oh, the art of procrastination! I know that one quite well! It’s a wonder I ended up with such a good GPA at school! LOL!!!
Sometimes it does work better that way though, doesn’t it?
The ironic thing is that I do not procrastinate at work. It’s like the complete opposite for me. But school? Chores at home? Forget about it!
Can you taste the coffee in these cupcakes? I know, I’m such a pre-pubescent child…I hate coffee! But they look delightful otherwise! 🙂
I’m totally the same way. Last minute with everything. And even when I try to be organized and plan ahead, I end up leaving something dangling to cause havoc at the last second.
Your cupcakes look totally worth a calorie splurge!
Well, it looks like procrastination works really well for you!!! 🙂
Now if I could just be as artful in my procrastination….
That cupcake looks sooo good!
Mmmm chocolate, caramel and marshmallow…sounds good to me.
Not a procrastinator here, just a worrier. I would love to bite into one of those cookies.
These do sound wonderful!! I am a procrastinator, too. But with blogging, it’s usually because I just have too much I want to post about! I still have several things from last year that I have waiting to be posted about…
Heavenly. I think these look sooooo good! I’ve been in a procrastinating mood lately, so maybe I’ll make ’em!
Procrastination is an art! But the older I get, the less I procrastinate — I think I have more of a sense of time passing, no time to waste, etc.
marshmallow creme, caramel *and* chocolate! these would drive my boyfriend crazy! i’ll totally have to try them.
I’m a notorious procrastinator. 🙁
Every New Year I make a resolution to not be such a procratinator…but I end up putting it off until the next year! 😉
heh – my blog is the only thing i *don’t* procrastinate about!
haha. such a funny story.
i love your cup cakes!!!!!
I think in our own way, we all procrastinate about things.
I write best under pressure too–seems the best ideas come when not forced, you know? Glad you finally put up this recipe though 😉