MADE: Chocolate Cupcakes August 10, 2008
Posted by Kay & Elle in cupcake, homemade, recipes.Tags: chocolate, frosting, homemade, made, recipe, sprinkles
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This week Kay made chocolate cupcakes at home. Here are the results:
More about the recipe in a minute, but in the middle of the night when making these, I realized we didn’t have that much in way of decor. I raided Jay’s candy, using some Finnish fruit animals to top off some of the cupcakes. Above you can see the pink lamb resting on chocolate-chocolate goodness,
I also used sprinkles–quite sparingly–and got compliments on my restraint. This example shows one of the more plentifully decorated cupcakes.
Now the recipe: I was a bit worried, having never made chocolate cuppies before, about making them chocolatey enough. I found tons of good recipes, lots of them with cocoa powder, but ended up using this one from Cupcake Fun. I simply used the recipe, and did not put extra chocolate chips on top as I planned to frost these babies with chocolate.
For frosting, I used a great recipe with sour cream, vanilla, chocolate chips and light Karo 
I can’t find the link right now since I found it on another computer, so I’ll add it soon!
My daughter and I , both lovers of baking, have been searching for blogs with good cupcake recipes. My little girl was delighted to find this site, and kept exclaiming, “Cute!” She is now begging me to try these recipes “right now.”