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Chocolate Cupcakes

  



Chocolate cupcakes so yummy, especially if you want chocolate cake in small snake sized portions. To start, you are going to need a box of chocolate cake mix. I used Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge.



So I used 1/3 cup vegetable oil, three eggs, and one cup of water. This is before I found out one of my cake mix hacks which is replacing water with milk and using four eggs instead of three. This makes the cake more moist.


Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. I do this before I start mixing the ingredients together so that when I am done mixing the ingredients,  I can put it right in the oven.  So follow the instructions on the back of the cake mix you are using. Combine all of the ingredients using a mixer. I do not have a stand mixer, so I used one of my large mixing bowls and a hand mixer.


                                                  My batter is all ready to bake!!



I made 12 cupcakes. I used an ice-cream scoop to distribute my batter evenly.


Bake the cupcakes in the oven. I really don't know why, but I thought the cake mix only made 12 cupcakes. So I ended up with some more batter, which I poured into a 9 inch round.


Once the cupcakes are done baking let them cool for five minutes, then transfer the cupcakes from their pans to a cooling rack. Now we are ready to decorate!


 I used Betty Crocker cupcake icing.

 I used the star tip that came with the cans, and piped swirls on the cupcakes.


I arranged the cupcakes on a cake board, and placed a wine glass upside down in the middle of the cake board. I arranged the cupcakes around the wine glass, then placed my last one on the foot of the glass. I really like this style of arranging!


On top of the blue iced cupcakes, I added silver sprinkles, and on the pink, I used hot pint sprinkles.



                                            And I'm done! Decorating cupcakes is so easy and fun. Enjoy!








Baking things like this are easy and fun! I love decorating  things like this. Try it using different icing colors and see what you can create!

                                               ~ The Baker














     












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