This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at U Chicago chapter.
If you’re lazy but still want to impress your friends with your baking skills, these are the cupcakes for you. Using boxed cake mix AND boxed pudding mix featuring some extra spices, these cupcakes are topped off with homemade vanilla frosting and a small piece of ‘brûlée,’ which is actually just sugar and water. If you get the frosting right, no one will be able to tell the difference between boxed and baked.
#SpoonTip: No creme brûlée is complete without some crystallized sugar. However, since I’m 1) too broke for a “kitchen blow torch” and 2) they are apparently not allowed in the dorms, we’ll be making “stovetop crystals.”
