I usually put my blog posts up when the video goes live in the mornings, but Paul and I have been fortunate enough to have spent the last four days in Toronto hanging out (and working) at Buffer Festival!\u00a0 Which means the Paul end of things (the video) was scheduled and ready to go before we even left, and the Jenn end of things (the blog post) was not.\u00a0 I apologize to those of you who wait to hear my insightful additions to our current video in the form of the blog. Thanks for that Mom.\u00a0 Actually, I don’t even think she reads it!\u00a0 She’s really great at sharing on Facebook though \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n
The last couple days, and months, and pretty much year have been incredible ones for Paul and I.\u00a0 We are incredibly fortunate to have dream jobs as creators on YouTube. Neither of us had been to Toronto before, and I love it here!\u00a0 I love the shopping, I love the culture and I love that there is any kind of food you could imagine here!\u00a0 We had the most amazing Thai food right behind our hotel our first night here.\u00a0 I haven’t seen a cupcake though.\u00a0 It’s been a nice break from them. We attended the Buffer Festival Industry day on Thursday and set up a booth to serve our Pumpkin Spice Latte cupcakes.\u00a0 Make sure you check us out on Facebook <\/a>and Instagram for pictures of all the fun things we did that day.\u00a0 On Friday we attended a couple of screenings; Rhett and Link<\/a>, and Epic Meal Time<\/a>.\u00a0 Rhett and Link seem like incredibly nice guys, and their screening was great to sit through.\u00a0 They showed the audience the evolution of their channel(s) and we even got to watch Monday’s upload ahead of time!\u00a0 It’s a great one!\u00a0 The EMT screening was a showing of a couple of episodes of their new TV series, Epic Meal Empire.\u00a0 It was great to see those guys in person as well, and I even met Harley on the street . . . and totally fan girled on him.\u00a0 I was supposed to be professional, but that didn’t happen!\u00a0 I’ve watched him for so long, that I was just honored to be able to talk to him.\u00a0 Last night we finished the night off with a creator party at the pop-up YouTube Space TO, and had a blast.\u00a0 Google always treats us incredibly well.\u00a0 At the party, we were in the company of amazingly talented people . . . to name drop unabashedly, my friends Harley, Rhett, Link, and Shay Carl.\u00a0 There were soooooo many others that I knew were amazing creators, but being so busy, I don’t have a lot of time to consume my own medium!\u00a0 This morning, with very little sleep, we headed off to YTSTO again, for a couple of workshops.\u00a0 One on Creator Development, which we have had before, but it’s always good to have a recap and check in, and then another presentation from Rhett and Link.\u00a0 They have created themselves quite the empire and they have so many exciting things in store- including a new morning show with women!\u00a0 <\/p>\n Anyway, that’s the long winded reason why my blog post is late.\u00a0 “Jenn,” you ask, “can’t you schedule your blog posts like Paul schedules the videos?”\u00a0 Yes, I can.\u00a0 But I can’t figure out our server’s time zone!\u00a0 <\/p>\n I’ve been wanting to do these devil cupcakes since last October.\u00a0 I wanted to do them last year, but we ran out of time.\u00a0 I figure waiting a year to see if I really like an idea is probably a good thing.\u00a0 If I still really liked it, then I would definitely make it.\u00a0 I don’t have any regrets when it comes to cake videos we’ve uploaded, but there are some ideas that looking back, I know I could have done them better.\u00a0 When I’m developing an idea\/recipe, I want to make it as fabulous as possible.\u00a0 So when thinking about what would go well with a devil cupcake, devil’s food cake was the obvious choice!<\/p>\n The difficulty for this recipe came when attempting to dip the cupcakes.\u00a0 If you do not place them in the fridge, the buttercream is likely to plop off and fall directly into your red melted chocolate. Make sure it’s solidly set on the cupcake before dipping, or you’ll ruin your red chocolate like I did while practicing!\u00a0<\/p>\n If you’re still with me and reading, thanks again Mom, I won’t take up anymore of your time . . . so here is the super simple video for how to make your own Devil Cupcakes. <\/p>\n