Surprise!

Today we had a going away party for one of my good friends at work, Sunny.  Unfortunately for us, she's moving across the country to our Seattle office.  It's kind of weird because we won't really see her anymore, but she'll still be working in our department.  I had a meeting during her going away party and couldn't go. What poor meeting scheduling!

So in my stead, I made cupcakes for the party! I decided to bake them kind of last minute, so I went with a box cake mix.  To make it a little more special, I decided to fill each cupcake with a delicious marshmallow creme filling! Then, I made a chocolate glaze to cover up the top and hide the filling.  This is a great way to spice up a basic box cake and make something delicious!  Recipe after the jump.

Filled with creme prior to frosting.

This is the start of something new

Well friends, I hope you enjoyed Molly's first post, especially the SNL video.  Gotta love Kristen Wiig.  However, I have big news.  I am now..................

as of today.....................

the proud owner...........

of...............



a kitchenaid mixer.  I KNOW, RIGHT? Here's a picture of the beauty.

 So naturally, I had to christen it.  I decided to go with a standard chocolate cake and let the kitchenaid do its magic on some cream cheese frosting. So here we go! Who figured out that you can take all these ingredients

 and end up with something like this?

 

Whoever it was, I am forever indebted to you. For real.  I hope that as this blog progresses, I'll start to experiment with my own recipes and combinations, but established recipes are good for now.  The chocolate cupcake is nice and rich, and the frosting is RIDICULOUS.  The recipe I found is supposedly what they use at Georgetown Cupcake, and I have to say it does taste pretty similar.  However, I did alter that one a bit as I used neufchatel cheese instead of cream cheese because I actually had some in the fridge.  As evidenced in the picture above, my piping skills need some work, but even as they are now, piping feels pretty legit.  Well, the leftover cream cheese frosting is calling my name, so I better get on that...


Hershey's Choccolate Cupcakes and Cream Cheese Frosting