WTF? Tuna Cupcakes?

Posted by Luke Walker · February 23, 2009 · Posted in Oddly Comforting, Toronto, Canada 

When we founded this site, a big part of the naming process was finding things we liked that would never, ever be eaten in combination. Or at least that we couldn’t picture eating together. Or at least that we couldn’t picture eating together except for on some kind of hilarity-inducing dare.

Sadly, if finding an impossible combination was our aim, we fail, fail, FAILED, because it turns out that tuna cupcakes are positively delicious. Hellebelle, a friend and occasional TunaCupcake.com commenter, pointed us to a recipe for tuna cupcakes within a few days. And then when I posted my comfort food dare, she brought it up again. So I went for it, guys. I totally went for it.


What is a tuna cupcake?

Well, it’s really a cupcake. It’s really a biscuit filled with tuna and cream of mushroom soup. Almost like… a portable tuna casserole. And we all love tuna casserole, right? I know I do. I survived on it through much of my undergrad… except by tuna casserole, I mean i dumped some tuna, cheese, and cream of mushroom soup on top of some noodles, eating until warm enough to be edible. Man, was I lazy. And fat.

A tuna cupcake is a touch more sophisticated: You take some biscuit dough (the recipe calls for the pre-made kind, but I was slightly more ambitious and used Bisquick) and line some muffin tins with small squares. Don’t grease them!

Next, you heat up all the other ingredients until you’re bored of heating them, and dump them into the biscuit-lined muffin tins. Fold the dough over the filling, bake, and you’re set.

WHOA, THAT’S REALLY IT?

Yup.

How do they taste, though?

Delicious. Seriously, if you like cream of mushroom soup, tuna, and biscuits–and I’ll be personally offended if you don’t–you will like tuna cupcakes. The taste of the filling permeates through the dough and makes the biscuits nice and moist. Which leads me to the one issue:

Seepage. Most of the filling disappeared into the dough, so rather than having a nice gooey centre, we had… well, not a whole lot of anything, honestly. A bit of tuna in the middle. And I filled them up to the brim, so… short of adding more filling partway through the cooking process, I’m not sure how to remedy that one. But oh man would a more tuna-filled cupcake really hit the spot.

On a scale of 1 to tuna-cupcake-licious, tuna cupcakes score, well, 89.5.

Want to make them yourself? Check out the recipe

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Comments

9 Responses to “WTF? Tuna Cupcakes?”

  1. hellebelle on February 26th, 2009 12:17 am

    hurrah, i am so amused that you actually made those WTF tuna cupcakes! i am also glad that they did not kill you or make you vomiticious.

    i think i might have another recipe for you. whenever i go to clean out my spam folder in gmail, the little newsreel thing near the top of the page displays a link to a recipe for spam vegetable strudel. how adventurous are you? i do not deny that before i stopped eating meat, my mom would slice up a can of spam and fry it up. you’d be surprised how delicious it was. but then how much meat really is in spam anyway.

  2. Luke Walker on February 27th, 2009 12:37 am

    OMG I’m totally going to try that out. totally. i’ve never had spam before… YAY!

  3. hellebelle on March 3rd, 2009 4:55 pm

    ohhh…this recipe might be even more oddly comforting than spam strudel — french fry spam casserole!!

  4. Luke Walker on March 3rd, 2009 5:19 pm

    I think all this spam consumption is going to have to take place at some kind of spam-related party. i wonder if anyone would come…

  5. hellebelle on March 4th, 2009 10:09 pm

    i would, but alas i am vegetarian…*phew*

  6. fono on March 8th, 2009 11:44 pm

    Technically I believe these are tuna MUFFINS.

  7. Luke Walker on March 9th, 2009 10:00 am

    Haha, fono, you find me a recipe for tuna cupcakes that seem more cupcakey and i will absolutely make it.

  8. Tomas on March 23rd, 2009 1:32 am

    I have to agree with fono — those are *muffins* Not much difference, though.

    I realize that as a noob to the site I shouldn’t issue any sort of challenge, but I when I did a site search I noted there was no match for “lutefisk.” Anyone up to the challenge of attempting to do something with lutefisk and chocolate? Barring lutefisk, any herring will do.

    Really.

    Or should *I* try first? The downside of that is it may be until summer until it gets done — though since there will be a bit before this experiment, do any of you have a better suggestion of ingredient combos, in addition to the two base (debasing? at least the lutefisk is….) main ingredients?

    I’ll be anxiously awaiting your reply.

  9. Tomas on March 23rd, 2009 1:36 am

    Oh, forgot - I think I’ll attempt to improve upon lmaoliscious tuna dumplings. Yea, the more I look at the photos, the more they look like dumplings, regardless of how they were actually prepared… *sigh* yet another dare from this freaky outsider.

    ^__^

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