I love to make cupcakes, and I recently bought a book with different cupcake recipes. I'm going to try to make cupcakes twice a month and post how it turns out. The people at work are going to love me with this experiment.
This time I made "Christmas Cupcakes"... which is basically chocolate cupcakes with cute Christmas-y sprinkles.
Please don't judge my crappy camera/photos. A new sharper camera is on my To-Buy once I get a raise or something?
a mess.
Dexter enjoyed sitting at my feet and barking at the blender.
Finished Product
A better view of the cute cupcake liners
Recipe:
The cake part is just a simple box cake mix plus I added a little chocolate pudding in it. I don't normally use box cake mixes, but it's what I had for the moment. I'll be doing recipes from scratch according to the new book.
Frosting:
I made the frosting from scratch using the Hershey's recipe on the back. In case you don't have a Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa, here is the recipe:
6 tablespoons butter softened
2/3 cup cocoa
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar (The recipe calls for 3 but I used 4 1/2 to make my icing stiffer)
2/3 cup cocoa
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar (The recipe calls for 3 but I used 4 1/2 to make my icing stiffer)
Cream butter in a small mixing bowl. Add cocoa and sugar alternately with milk. Beat to spreading consistency. Stir in vanilla extract.
I used a large 1M tip to ice the cupcake. I used to have a lot of cake decorating tips, but I lost them in all my moving that I've done over the years. I'm sure I'll be getting more very soon.
