Cookie Dough Cupcake Fail

Last year at TCTC, Dani and I had an awesome English teacher. We like her a lot. Her birthday was last week and she asked that we make her muffins or cupcakes. I found this amazing recipe on pinterest for cupcakes with cookie dough in the middle.

This kind of symbolizes our attempt. 

The recipe said that all you had to do was make your normal cupcake batter, pour it into the cupcake/muffin tin, then put a frozen ball of cookie dough on top and it'll sink to the middle of the cupcake and not bake into a cookie because it is frozen. Everyone on the blog said it worked really well. 

Lies. Lies I tell you! 

This is what ours did. Nailed it.

Yes, my friends, there is a cookie nicely baked onto the top of each of our cupcakes. Thankfully, Dani and I have a good sense of humor and just stood there looking at them laughing with tears running down our faces at how much we fail at baking. 

The next batch we made we decided to pour a little bit of cake batter, put the frozen cookie dough in, then pour the rest of the batter. 

Oh. My.Word.

They came out looking like normal cupcakes and BOY did they taste amazing! I didn't take a picture of them because, well, they just looked like your average cupcakes. Even the first batch we made that didn't look pretty still tasted amazing. That's one thing I really like about baking. It's hard to screw something up beyond repare. It might not look good but its dessert. It'll taste good no matter what. Pretty sure I ate about 5 of them. 

So what is the take home lesson from this? 

Don't believe everything you read on pinterest. They lie.