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Chocolate Cupcakes

  



     Recently I made chocolate cupcakes and decorated them with pink and blue icing and sprinkles. I used Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge boxed cake mix.



All you need is 3 eggs, 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, and 1 cup of water.



Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. I usually do this before I start mixing the ingredients together so that when I am done mixing the ingredients so when I am ready to bake the batter, I can just put it right in the oven. So, first pour the dry mix into your bowl for your stand mixer, or just into a regular bowl or mixing bowl, if you have a hand mixer. I have a hand mixer, so I use regular bowls. Here is the one that I used.


So after you have poured your dry mix into your bowl, add the eggs, oil, and water. If you want your cake to be richer and heavier, use milk instead of water and add an extra egg. You can follow the instructions on the box (which I sometimes do) but sometimes I just beat it until it looks something like this.



I made 12 cupcakes. I use an ice-cream scooper so that the cupcakes can be even.


So, if you have one, use the ice-cream scooper to scoop the batter into the cupcake liners. If you don't have one, just use a spoon to scoop it into the liners.


Bake it in the oven for 23 minutes. I had extra batter, so I put it into 9 inch round cake pan.


When it is done baking let it cool for about 5 minutes, then take the cupcakes out of the pan, and onto a cooling rack.


 I used Betty Crocker cupcake icing.

 I tried out some of the tips and found one that I liked, and then iced the cupcakes like this.


I arranged the cupcakes on a cake board, and then stuck a wine glass upside down, and set the cupcake on the foot thing on the wine glass.


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



                                            Here are the rest of the pictures.








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

                                               ~ The Young Baker














     












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