My roommate and I decided to have a baking night one night, so I turned to Pinterest to find a delicious recipe. One of the very first pins on my feed was for these chocolate peppermint patty cupcakes. YUM. So I made them.
The recipe was simple and pretty easy to follow, and I would recommend it! The cupcake part was super easy, but where I ran into problems was when I had to make the icing.
The recipe said to just use Cool Whip for icing and mix in a little bit of mint extract to make it taste minty and a little bit of green food coloring to make it look minty. I did that and I thought it needed to be more green, so I reached for the green food coloring to add more in.
Turns out I actually grabbed the bottle of mint extract and poured nearly the entire thing into the icing mix. The bottles are very similar in that they are both small, have green on them, and have the same twisty top. Easy mistake to make, really.
The icing ended up tasting like toothpaste and whole kitchen smelled like mint. I still put it on the cupcakes, though, because it was really pretty. The actual cupcake part turned out great, so you just have to scrape off all of the icing before you eat it. My current theory, though, is if you do eat the icing it's actually good for your teeth, since it tastes like toothpaste.
