If you follow this blog, you know I’m a fan of Cupcakes. I blame my friend Lindsay. Anyhow, DC is probably the best city in the world to get cupcakes, and no one makes better cupcakes in DC than Georgetown Cupcakes (although there are some haters…we’ll call them the cupcake snobs). Anyhow, the fact is that Georgetown Cupcakes makes amazing cupcakes.
What makes them relevant to today’s Free Friday Post is that every day they give away 100 cupcakes for free to their followers on Twitter. Each morning they tweet out the Secret Flavor of the day, which is not on the menu, and the first 100 people who order it get it for free.
What It Is: The Georgetown Cupcake Secret Free Flavor of the Day. These are GOOD flavors too. Not just boring chocolate or vanilla.
Where You Can Get It: You can get them at either the original Georgetown location, or at their new Bethesda location (I know…Georgetown Cupcakes in Bethesda…weird). You also need to be watching their Twitter account to see what the day’s secret flavor is. Follow them at http://twitter.com/GTownCupcake.
Awesomeness Scale: 7 out of 10. Free Cupcakes. Every Day. The only downside is you need to get there early enough to get one.
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I wanted to make a fruit-based cupcake to celebrate the start of summer, so I figured blackberries would work great (and they were a LOT cheaper than Raspberries 
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Basically these are normal cupcakes with LOTS of blackberries mixed in to the mix and into the cream cheese frosting. Anyhow, the frosting was a bit too liquidy (maybe less berries next time) but it worked great.
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So some of you may notice that I’ve been making a lot of cupcakes recently. I guess cooking is just something fun to do on the weekends when you’re bored.
I don’t generally eat many of them. Usually I like to bring them in to work to share.
Anyhow, recently I experimented a bit.
So you take your average cupcake mix…
Then add a little something special (frozen balls of cookie dough!)
Then bake! The cookie dough will thaw as the cupcake bakes around it, so you end up with delicious cupcakes with a little bit of cookie dough inside 
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Life Lesson #2: It always pays to read the WHOLE ingredients list. The comma, in fact, does not indicate the end of the ingredient.
What’s even more funny is that this is the second time I have completely missed that clause and had just put cold chocolate chips into the mix. It’s only after the fact that I underlined the part about melting it. What’s even funnier is that we got the bright idea to somewhat melt the chocolate to soften it up this time. Only to realize a few minutes later we should have melted it all the way.
Life Lesson #3: Sometimes when you go off-book it turns out even better.
The end result today was a semi-chocolatey icing with chocolate chunks. It actually is a lot more fun that just boring chocolate icing. So sometimes the directions are just telling you the tried and true.
Going off the beaten path can be more risky, but the rewards are usually higher.
Oh, and in case you’re curious, here’s the end result:
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