Chocolate Cupcakes!!

mmm...some of my favourite words: chocolate, and cake ^^ Had the urge to make some chocolate cupcakes in attempt to get rid of some of my ingredients =]

This time the recipe was from Lovin' From the Oven she's got some great stuff (and beautiful pics) so check it out if you have time! I'll just copy the recipe over...

Chocoalte Cupcakes

•2 cups sugar

•1 3/4 cups AP flour

•3/4 cup HERSHEY's cocoa

•1 1/2 tsp baking powder

•1 1/2 tsp baking soda

•1 tsp salt

•2 eggs

•1 cup milk

•1/2 cup vegetable oil

•2 tsp vanilla extract

•1 cup boiling water

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease & flour 2 9-inch round baking pans or line muffin cups with bake cups.

2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on med speed for 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter onto prepared pans.

3. Bake 30-35 minutes if doing 9-inch round pans, 22-25 minutes for cupcakes until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans/cups to wire racks and cool completely.

Chocolate Buttercream:

•1/2 cup or 1 stick butter

•2/3 cup HERSHEY's cocoa

•3 cups powdered sugar

•1/3 cup milk

•1 tsp vanilla extract

Melt butter, stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. Makes about 2 cups of frosting.

And there you have it! I love decorating cupcakes, you can do so much with them! =] Sprinkles, fruit, buttercream, chocolate...just to name a few ideas ^^ Have fun~