What happens when you stuff sausage casings with cupcake-batter? That’s what Stef from the Cupcake Project set out to discover. Short answer: sheer, heart-stopping deliciousness. Stef’s produced a detailed HOWTO for making your own cupcakewurst. Suggested serving: “Serve warm on Long John doughnuts with raspberry sauce.”
It took a lot of experimentation to conquer Cupcakewurst. I had hoped to be able to cook the Cupcakewurst entirely on the grill, but I found that the direct heat of the grill was more than the poor sausages could handle – they kept exploding and meeting their demise on the coals. I had the same problem in the oven: when I cooked the Cupcakewurst at the standard cupcake baking temperature of 350 F, they kept bursting open. I finally found the sweet spot of baking at 325 F and only filling the casings halfway. Even so, some of the casings still got small holes in them during baking. At 325 F, however, the cake cooked enough before the casings broke that only a small amount of batter oozed out through the holes. The small mess could easily be wiped up and the sausages were all usable.
This was my first time working with sausage casing and I found it to be really fun! It’s a cross between a giant slippery noodle and a condom. It’s stretchy and (comments above about it popping in the oven aside) fairly hard to accidentally break.
(via Neatorama)