……don’t believe me, ask the dishes! They can sing, they can….okay somebody stop me before I sing the whole song. (In case you never saw the movie growing up, it's from "Beauty and the Beast".)

I don’t expect a lot of you guys to know this, but black sesame is sort of a fad right now. I’ve tried to keep my curiosity at bay for a while, but I finally had to try it and see what all of the hype was about because I just didn’t get it.

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I get it now, black sesame is the bomb you guys! I mean, you’d think it’s going to taste weird or gross, but then it doesn’t. It gives this depth of nutty-ishness (my new word of the day) that is so intriguing at first and then it just gets better and leaves you craving more. I may have started something dangerous by discovering it for myself.

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The only drawback to using black sesame that I can think of at the moment is that it took me forever to grind the seeds, but that’s because my poor food processor is very well used and the blade’s getting dull. It took forever too, and you have to keep scraping it off the sides every five seconds. But trust me, it’s worth it. I’ve seen many recipes that call for blending it into a completely smooth paste but the closest I got personally was a grainy puree akin to wet sand. Hey, it worked and I actually kind of liked the graininess in the frosting.

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What didn’t work though, was my genius plan to do a makeshift mini cupcake pan. I have a bunch of these awesome silicone molds and pans that are perfectly oven safe and I love them. I use them all the time, like everyday, and there was this star shaped one that I’ve had for a while but never used in the oven. Well, apparently it isn’t silicone……or rather, it wasn’t silicone. Nope, I’m pretty sure it was rubber. Regardless of what material, I totally melted it in the oven into what is now an unrecognizable blob. Ooops. The funny thing is that I wasn’t actually baking anything in it, I was just using it to prop up something else. I’d try to explain but it wouldn’t make sense unless you had seen it. Moral of this story, I clearly need to find myself an actual mini cupcake pan.

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Anyway, yeah black sesame cupcakes. You have to try them because they’re amazing. I was trying to describe them to my little brothers and the first thing that popped in my head to tell them was that they are the cupcakes that anime characters would eat, assuming anime characters like cupcakes. I guess my head is in Japan this week or something. I think I’m just gonna go with it.

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As always, the recipe is available upon request. The first request gets an upvote.

ALL CONTENT IS MINE AND ORIGINAL! All of these food photos were taken with my Nikon D5300 and my favorite Lens, the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. You can find out more in my INTRO POST. And by the way, my intro post did a huge $0.21