I’m currently working on a red bean paste cupcake but can’t quite make a decision on the frosting. The cupcake itself is going to be a vanilla bean sponge filled with red bean paste but as for the frosting there are so many choices. Vanilla bean, red bean, dark chocolate, mango buttercream, coconut buttercream, crushed pineapple cream cheese frosting, green tea/macha . How to choose?! Perhaps the only solution is to make them all in the smallest possible batches and taste test them. One thing I have learned from this little Kit-Kat is that too much sweetness can be a bad thing. While the aftertaste is pleasantly beany , the initial flavour is cloyingly sweet with flowery undertones that I’m not too fond of. Worth trying, but I won’t miss it terribly once it has gone.
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