The Chocolate Lover's Cupcake

I love chocolate. Most people love chocolate. But I think I love it more than most people. I'm talking, I-need-the-sweetness-every-night-so-I-don't-go-crazy kind of love. So, when  I decided to make a chocolate cupcake, I had to find the best recipe out there.

 Enter this recipe. Oh. My. Goodness. Words cannot even describe how excited I was every night after dinner to eat one of these babies. The texture was so velvety, the flavor so rich, it was hard to stop at one.

I also used a vanilla cream cheese frosting, found from the same blog. I used blue food coloring to give it a little something extra. A perfect topping to a deliciously chocolate treat!

The ingredients: The thing I love about baking is that the ingredients are all stuff I already have!

My first experience using the piping bag! Either those things are messy, or I'm doing it wrong. Either way, I think there was more icing on my fingers than the cupcakes!

What Dustin and I got to eat after dinner every night for a while (and Dustin sometimes even after lunch)! Such a sweet ending to a day!

For the sake of your sweet tooth, make these! I promise you, it will not be a decision you regret.

The only question now is, what should I bake next?

Sweet of the Week: Pumpkin Pie Cupcake

I know, I know....sounds a litte ambitious for the first go-round, right? But I was feeling in a rather fall-ish mood today, and I DO love me some pumpkin pie. Here's a little peek at what I was busy doing today:

The ingredients: SUPER simple! All I had to buy was pumpkin puree.

 The dry ingredients. I learned the hard way long ago that yes, you DO have to mix wet/dry separately!

 The wet ingredients. Once blended, whisk in the dry ingredients gradually.

 Ready for the oven! 20 minutes at 350

 Hot out of the oven! Don't worry, it's perfectly normal for them to sink as they cool.

The delicious finished product! I used whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinammon to top of this fabulously fall treat (Because what's pumpkin pie without whipped cream?)

I was so excited with my finished product! It has the "cakey" outside of a cupcake, but the inside is all pie. Perfect for Thanksgiving (and if you're worried about weight, a nice way to control the portion of your dessert!) I cannot claim this recipe as my own, I found this recipe on this blog. Right now, I'm still in the "mastery" phase. Soon I hope to be concocting tasty recipes of my own! Try this one on Turkey Day and I promise you, everyone will be Thankful!