Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes

This month we made delicious chocolate cupcakes with the most divine frosting we have ever made.  The frosting was really thick, like fudge, but still had a creamy texture.  It also wasn’t sugary sweet like a lot of store bought frosting is.  Here is the recipe:

1 cup softened butter

4 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar

1 ¼ cups baking (unsweetened) cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup milk

To make the cupcakes more interesting, we filled them with store bought cherry pie filling.  For a decorative touch we also topped them with a cherry from the filling.

Springtime

We made these spring cupcakes based on some that we saw in Hello, Cupcake.  It’s actually much simpler than it looks.  All you have to do is cut mini marshmallows in half with scissors.  Then you dip the sticky side of them in colored sugar.  Next, you take a frosted cupcake and arrange the marshmallow halves like petals starting from the outside and going in.  We put a red hot in the center, but feel free to branch out and get creative.

Happy Easter!

Our April cupcakes were inspired by the Easter cupcakes in the book Hello, Cupcake.  The eggs are made from graham crackers we carved using our mad skills.  If you are wondering what the other design is, we are too…just kidding.  They are supposed to look like bunny butts.  The feet are also made from graham crackers and the tail is a mini marshmallow.