Cupcakery - Chocolate

For a brief moment I forgot that I was doing this whole attempt to eat better thing and decided that I needed to go on a cupcake bender.  Now of course this was just not any cupcake bender...it was a let's see if we can make cupcakes like the ones that we get at A Sweet Life.

The first attempt was to take a simple cake mix and substitue certain ingredients.

 

They turned out ok.  Definetly not it's a sweet life quality.  Just slightly better then the cake mix recipe.   Here is the "recipe" or what I followed:

 

* Add 1-2 more eggs then the directions on the cake mix box.

* Use Melted Butter instead of oil and double the amount

*Milk instead of water

 

Then you just baked according to the cake box directions.

 

 

Now the frosting was a whole different story.  Light and Fluffy it was glorious.

Recipe:

1 container cool whip

1 box pudding mix

1/2 the milk it states on the pudding mix

1/2 t. Almond Extract

 

Mix that all together, whip up and let chill. 

 

I just put the frosting back in the cool whip container and let people frost the cupcakes on demand.

Recipe was found over at: www.farmerbell.blogspot.com

 

 

Even though the cupcakes were not exactly what I wanted, the frosting was glorious; I can still say that there was none left.

 

Keep a look out for Cupcakery Round 2 ...that one was a bloody mess.