Chocolate Butter Cupcakes

I’m wondering if this may account for the difficulty I had with this and the last chocolate cake.  The finished product was dry and cracked much too easily.

My mistake aside, these cupcakes were easy to make, the chocolate flavor was wonderful.  I couldn’t leave them plain; in my book, cake is a frosting delivery system.  I made my creamy vanilla frosting.  The first step in this frosting is to heat milk and flour; I added a pint of finely diced strawberries to the milk and a few drops of red food coloring.  I reduced the milk by 1/2 c. to make up for the moisture in the berries.  The rest went according to the recipe.

This may sound silly, but I just can’t take these to work right now.  My boss and friend, our senior pastor, just retired, or more accurately, quasi-retired.  He’s going from a church of 1,100 members to two small churches in Alaska that may have 150 members combined.  We’ve been celebrating our shared ministry in the last week, and it’s involved a lot of sweets.  Last Wednesday was the last day we’d all be in the office together.  Paul brought in cinnamon rolls for morning coffee.  Sandi brought in a coffee cake.  That was also the day I brought in carrot cupcakes for our birthday lunch.  Friday night was our staff farewell party.  I made Baked Alaska to top off our Mexican food buffett.  Yesterday, was the farewell open house with the congregation; there was cake.  It feels like December 26th, time to swear off goodies and eat some vegetables.

Unlike my other blog posts, as part of the Heavenly Cake Bakers, I don’t post recipes from this book on the internet. One of the reasons for this baking group is to encourage readers to purchase the cookbook. That strategy worked on me! After follow the group’s baking adventures for a couple of months, I ordered a copy from Amazon.

Lois Britton

An accountant by trade and a food blogger since 2009, Lois Britton fell in love with Polish cuisine during the years she lived in Poznań, Poland. As the creator of PolishHousewife.com,  she loves connecting readers with traditional Polish recipes. Lois has a graduate certificate in Food Writing and Photography from the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Polish Housewife Cookbook, available on Amazon and on her website.