More Cheese More Chocolate

I love cupcakes, but I’m not much of a cupcake maker.  I don’t really see the point of baking them when I can buy a delicious cupcake from Yum whenever I want.  My craving is satisfied, and I’m not left with eleven little treats sitting around.  Sometimes, however, I do get the urge to bake a batch.  It’s usually for a birthday or some other special occasion, but this time it was due in part to my desire to avoid studying and in part to the fact that I clicked on a link to a website called Ming Makes Cupcakes and I simply could not control myself.  There were several varieties that I wanted to try, but I chose the Sour Cream Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting because I already had most of the ingredients.  The only thing that I did not have was sour cream, so I used plain yogurt instead.  It was a success.

Click on the link for the recipe, but be warned, you might lose all self-control: Ming Makes Cupcakes

You might be wondering what could possibly be better than a half cup of Nutella.

Nutella mixed with powdered sugar and cream, of course!  OH MAN is this good.  And sweet.  Very sweet.  I licked the spoon about six times, and my stomach began to ache.  But some things are worth the pain, and this is certainly one of them.

The only thing I would consider doing differently next time would be doubling the frosting recipe, or at least increasing it by 1/2.  This amount was certainly enough to frost all of the cupcakes, but if you’re into frosting like my mom is, you will need about twice as much.

Thick chocolate cake batter.

WOW.

Fill me with sweet sugary goodness.

Note: The original recipe tells you to bake these for 30 minutes.  Not sure if that’s a typo or not as most of the other recipes only have a 20 minute baking time.  Whatever the case may be, mine only took about 20 minutes.

Who wants one?

Seriously.  I need to get rid of these.  Who wants one?