A cupcake experiment

I had never been that interested in making cupcakes, and I don't usually like eating them either, but after reading all the cupcake tweets and seeing photos of my friends' cupcakes on twitter I decided to give it a shot. After all, I've already baked cake and all you need to do is simply following the instructions to a T so I thought making cupcakes would be something like that.

First, I needed to decide what kind of cupcake to make, because there are tons of recipes out there in the wild, wild web. After narrowing it down to vanilla, butter, and chocolate cupcakes, I finally decided on chocolate. Because you know, when you have a kid, chocolate is a no-brainer.

Then of course, being the OC person that I am, I had to decide on the icing. I wanted to do everything right even if it's my first time and you're allowed to fail on your first try. I chose to make buttercream icing because I saw that people usually used this to ice their cuppies.

Finally, I gathered all the ingredients and made sure I had the right pans, then I settled down to the task. It wasn't that difficult but I got so stressed out by the two boys (my son and my nephew) nagging me to let them take a lick of the batter. The cupcakes came out beautifully but since they took a while to cool completely, I couldn't ice them right away and decided to save the icing for the next day.

The icing was quite easy to make, but putting them on the cupcakes and making them look nice was the hard part.