HAPPY (late) HALLOWEEN!

We're sorry this took so long to get up. But its here now, and orange frosting could work for Thanksgiving too!
So, how did you celebrate your Halloween?
Nutmeg had a bunch of  people over to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We also went to several Halloween parties. For one of them we baked spoooooky cupcakes!

We have a shortage of good pictures...so this is all you get

We used a chocolate cake recipe and made the cupcakes mini, because, everybody knows, mini cupcakes are better for Halloween!

The frosting is a white chocolate cream cheese frosting, a recipe from the blog www.notsohumblepie.blogspot.com, and we dyed it orange and purple.

The final touch was piping melted chocolate into Halloween-y shapes--ghosts, witches hats, BOO, RIP, spiders, etc. We piped it onto wax paper on a baking sheet and stuck them into the freezer for 10 minutes to harden. After we frosted the cupcakes we stuck these shapes on top.

Dark Chocolate Mini Cupcakes
adapted from The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book


Ingredients:
2 Sticks unsalted butter
4 oz bittersweet chocolate chips
1 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups All-Purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
pinch salt
4 eggs
1 cup vanilla flavored Greek yogurt (or 1 cup regular Greek yogurt and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract)

What to Do:
1. Melt the butter, chocolate chips, and cocoa powder together in the microwave (do it in 30 second intervals stirring in between)
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder and soda, and salt in a medium bowl
3. Whisk together eggs and vanilla in a large bowl.
4. Slowly whisk in sugar to the eggs and vanilla
5. Slowly whisk in chocolate mixture to the egg mixture
6. pour about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the eggs and whisk in
7. Whisk in the Greek yogurt to the egg mixture
8. Mix in the rest of the flour
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
10. Pour your batter into a prepared mini cupcake pan (or regular cupcake if your feeling boring. or regular cake pan if your feeling extra boring)
11. Bake for about half an hour, but check them often because mini cupcakes can burn quicker than regular cakes or cupcakes
12. Decorate them!
13. Bring them to a party! or whatever...

*for the White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting, go visit Ms. Humble at www.notsohumblepie.blogspot.com