For all the bowl lickers out there

Last night I was sitting at my computer reading the 'Kiwicakes' Forum and I was pondering over what my Friday would be like.
As I sat at the table scrolling through different topics I came across the 'cupcakes' section and decided to have a nosey.
I must say the forum participants are a friendly bunch of wonderful people who are happy to share their secrets with an amateur like me :)
So once again I thought it might be nice for the ladies in my Friday night prayer group to have something other than store bought cookies to snack on. I then went to bed thinking about chocolate cupcakes.
Once I had dropped the kids at school this morning and after a few coffees and cigis, I was pouring over the many recipes in the forum (And also because I kept changing my mind on which type cupcakes I would make) I finally fell across a wonderful blog - Kitchen Wench.
http://www.insanitytheory.net/kitchenwench/devils-food-cupcakes/
So off to the shop I trotted to get the ingrediants that I didn't have in my cupboard.
I'm now home with ingrediants in hand and have also prepped my kitchen for baking mode and have got my baking tunes playing so will post and update with pics once I'm finished...

OMG I have to say that even though there's a little bit of fuss in getting this mix together, it is DEFINATELY a bowl lickers delight!!! That is if you're not worried about eating raw eggs.  I have always been a bowl licker and I vowed to break my 'don't eat my own baking' rule because the raw mix was sooooo good.

The first lot of cupcakes are now out of the oven and resting for the next phase...  Minus 3 of course hehehehe.

Will hop off now and start getting everything else ready. Just looked at the time and it will be time to pick my monkeys up soon...

So after many attempts after I had completed the cupcakes to try and upload the photos and failing successfully I decided I would try and throw them up today...

 

 Although I didn't get any marriage proposals, lol I did get a whole lot of wonderful comments about these delicious morsels. I'm not ecstatic about how the icing turned out but the taste more than makes up for the look of the icing. I have been asked to attend a barbeque after church next Sunday and to bring more of these cupcakes with me. I'm not sure if I will bake them or if I will do something else.

As a side note, I managed to eat 12 of these babies. I'm glad I made so many because I gave some to my neighbour, my mum and there's still plenty left for the kids.