Chocolate Candy Cane Cupcakes

My brother and me. Me and my brother. We made cupcakes! Well, he wanted to so I helped him.

These were just really cute and delicious and simple and definetly worth making.The cake was dense but still good. They were super simple to make though and lots of fun!

They couldn't just be regular vanilla cupcakes with choclate frosting!

Of course not! Where's your Christmas cheer?

I just HAD to crush candy canes on top! Yummy!

Recipe

Cake

Oven preheated: 350 degrees
Line a muffin tin with 12 cupcake liners.

1/2 cup (1 stick) Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
2/3 cup Cold Milk

1. Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl.Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla.
2. In a medium size bowl, stir together all dry ingredients.
3. Add half of dry mixture to butter mixture and blend until incorporated. Add in the rest of mixture and blend until incorporated.
4. Stir in milk.
5. Pour evenly into muffin tin. Bake for 18-24 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of  
a cake.

Frosting

1/2 cup Softened Butter
1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
2 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
3 tablespoons Milk

1. Beat together butter and cocoa powder.Blend in vanilla.
2. Add in powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time. (don't give up just keep blending! at the end it will be a little balled up but hang in the it will get better!)
3. Blend in milk 1 tablespoon at a time until you have a good consistency.
4. Spread or pipe onto vanilla cupcakes.

Topping

3 Candy Canes

1. Put candy canes in a plastic bag and seal it.
2. Pound plastic bag on a cutting board with a metal spoon until it is in small clumps and some is powdery but not all.



3. Sprinkle on top and enjoy!!!