More Cupcakes and Kids

Cupcakes and kids.That seems to fill up a lot of my time lately. I'm good with that. Last week my 1st grader made it through his first week of homework ever so we decided to celebrate with cupcakes based on his favorite ice cream, mint chocolate chip. I did a basic chocolate cake with peppermint extract and then added mini chocolate chips to the batter. I also did a mint buttercream frosting. They came out tasting exactly like the ice cream. Success!

I have even gotten a little better at frosting them!

The baby girl is either telling me I am the #1 baker or she is asking for one more. It's not really clear.

The little man said nothing. He just ate.

And then he gave his opinion.

For something to have made my son speechless, it had to have been good.

Two days later I was back to baking again. Cupcakes don't seem to last long in this house. I am really trying to make simpler cupcakes with outstanding flavor, so I tried tweaking my chocolate cupcake recipe. In the process I found a secret, THE secret, to making the moistest yummiest cupcakes. I could tell you, but then I'd have to..well, you know the rest.

 So on  Sunday I came up with my black and white cupcake.  It's a super moist chocolate cupcake. Inside is a marshmallow creme filling, and it's topped with a vanilla buttercream frosting. This is my favorite cupcake so far.

I should call it the heavenly cupcake because it was like a little bit of heaven on Earth.

Or rather, four little bits of heaven on Sunday, two on Monday, and one yesterday.

I can't really explain the flavor expect to say this is what I believe a Hostess cupcake would taste like if it were made while you waited.  And you lived in Heaven. Can you tell I really, really like it?

I see many of these in my future.