Empirical Foodism

So, back in April, I made cupcakes for John and Heather’s wedding.   I promised a post about these cupcakes, I also promised recipes as I recall.   I’ve decided that I’m only posting the recipes for the cupcakes that I would make again without altering the recipe.   When John and Heather first approached me about helping out for their wedding, I was overly ambitious.   I thought that it would be fun to have 5 flavors of cupcakes.   I don’t know what I was thinking! After talking it through with the bride and groom, we came up with the following:   Citrus cupcakes with chocolate buttercream; Pistachio cupcakes with lime buttercream; Chocolate Coconut cupcakes with a coconut buttercream; Strawberry cupcakes with a vanilla bean cream cheese icing; and a cookies and cream cupcake with a basic buttercream icing.   I also made a carrot cake for the two of them to cut, I used the vanilla bean cream cheese icing for this (covered in some bought fondant). It took many days of baking to f