TWD: milk chocolate mini bundt cakes (or not milk chocolate cupcakes)

Pete was at band practice on Sunday (or as my brother likes to call it band camp) and we usually do the grocery shopping together or he does it by himself but I NEVER (I lie probably once every six months I might find myself at the store alone) do it by myself. I hate it. I think it has to do with pushing the cart. Everyone else in the store is in my way. There is no need to park your cart in the center of the aisle and spend 10 minutes gazing at cereal. If you are like me you always pick the same cereal anyway. There is a certain cart etiquette that many people at my local Trader Joe's and Safeway are missing. The worst is when two people that know each other bump into one another at the store and then proceed to have a conversation in the middle of the aisle. It is never okay to block the aisle. It makes me cranky. It's probably a good thing that I don't go by myself. Pete is actually protecting all the innocents by keeping me under control. He calms me. He's a good man. It is pretty much a given that if Pete and I don't go together on the weekend then no grocery shopping is happening. We then live off fat and gristle and other things we can scrounge up in the freezer until Pete makes the trek to the store. (Don't feel bad for him he is unemployed so he has lots of time to do stuff. Right, baby?)

This is all a very long winded way of saying I made do with what I had at home to make this week's milk chocolate mini bundt cakes. I do not own a mini bundt cake pan so I had to improvise and went with the cupcake pan. No milk chocolate in the house so I made these with a mix of bittersweet and semisweet chocolate (all the left over chunks sitting in my baking box). No whole milk in the fridge so I used buttermilk like Dorie suggests in the playing around. I also ran out of energy and did not bother making the glaze for these little cakes. I ended up with semisweet/bittersweet chocolate cupcakes (sort of). These were a bit underwhelming on their own but cupcake + vanilla ice cream + chocolate sauce = yummy. Unfortunately we are now out of vanilla ice cream and still have a lot of little cakes. Pete will have to make a run to the store. We need these basic necessities in the house.

Thanks to Kristin of I'm Right About Everything for picking this week's recipe. Check out her blog for the recipe. These make the best base for an ice cream sundae. You should also check out Tuesdays with Dorie to see what an actual milk chocolate mini bundt cake looks like and how they tasted.

(Wondering why my pictures are kind of lame and there are only two - I waited until 5:30 at night to try and take pictures. Not a good idea. Even with the tripod some were blurry. Almost dark out does not make pretty baking pictures. Maybe some day I will learn to start baking earlier in the day and not wait till 3. )