Monday, February 15, 2010

Chocolate Cupcakes with Alyssa


National holidays are wonderful, especially when it means you get to spend time with someone you love. My niece was with our family this weekend taking a break from her university studies and we had long visits, watched a few Olympic events and generally just relished being together.

Of course we made a little treat, one of our family favorite cakes. This chocolate cake is an absolutely wonderful standard go to kind of cake. Birthday, graduation, all most any kind of celebration or for some simple President's Day Cup Cakes- I've never been disapointed when I've used this recipe.


Alyssa took the beautiful pictures of these delicious treats and we rushed to get her back to school. We packed some of the cupcakes in a cupcake tin with rice scooped in the bottom so that they would make the ride home safely without getting the decor damaged. A little trick I learned from Jenny of Simple Life Love.


28 comments:

  1. Your cupcakes look and sound fantastic!Have a sweet day!

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  2. Your cupcake looks perfect! Lovely!
    Cheers,

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  3. These cupcakes look darling. You did a very professional job on the icing :)
    *kisses* HH

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  4. I really need a great chocolate cake recipe. So glad you posted it!

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  5. i would love to dive into that cupcake like i love to dive into the pool! are those cupcakes fat free! will i ever be fat free?

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  6. Hmm, looks easy enough - maybe I'll use this recipe for little boy's birthday next week... I know it'll taste great!

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  7. They look absolutely perfect! Such a nice holiday treat.

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  8. Baking is the perfect activity for family time. Plus you get to eat cupcakes at the end of it...can't argue with that! these look delicious. Such cute decorations on top!

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  9. I wish we had been able to stop by for a cupcake yesterday! They look very yummy.

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  10. The cupcakes are super cute. They look nice and rich too:)

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  11. I can't believe you didn't bring me one, mom! ha ha!

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  12. is that italian buttercream frosting?

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  13. Thanks for all your comments. Sir took the extra cupcakes to work today for an office treat so there aren't any extras to share . . . And we ran out of time to make the Italian buttercream so our little cakes were adorned with vanilla buttercream made with that delicious Sonoma Syrup Vanilla Bean "Crush".

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  14. Great pics!! Love the first one, especially. Those cupcakes look YUMMY.

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  15. Wow. These things are perfect! I'm printing the recipe. Thank-you Cristie!


    Laura

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  16. The perfect cupcakes...these are adorable. Thanks for the tip on storage. xoxox

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  17. These are so pretty! Great tip about the rice.

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  18. These are so perfectly pretty. I adore a yummy chocolate cupcake and your photos are amazing!

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  19. Those little cupcakes are just so adorable. I melt in the face of cute cupcakes :) And what a great tip for transporting the cupcakes, must remember that next time.

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  20. These look really sweet. I am absolutely crazy about your print out recipe sheet. Might get my graphic designer hubby on the case to do me a template for something similar...! He's always too busy or too tired to help me out though so I'll be waiting a long time!!

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  21. oh wow awesome cupcakes what a great Aunt you are

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  22. ces cupcakes sont excellent et très appétissants j'en goûterai volontiers à l'un deux
    bonne soirée

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  23. I never knew the trick about the rice in the bottom. Great thinking, and beautiful cupcakes!

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  24. Your cupcakes are so divine! Gorgeous. I'm so jealous!

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  25. I had a favorite chocolate cake for years but I found a better one and now it's my favorite cake...shhhhh don't tell my Mom!

    Gorgeous cupcakes!

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  26. What a beautiful blog you have. As delightful as these cupcakes. Like some of your other readers, too, love the tip on the cupcake transportation. Brilliant!

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  27. Great chocolate cake recipe and such cute little cupcakes!

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