Best Wedding Cake Frosting EVER!

That's what Kyle said after he ate some of the frosting off of these cupcakes I made this weekend.There was a secret filling in the middle of the cupcakes - see the small little cupcakes that aren't frosted along the bottom of the picture.These entire things are made from scratch (out of necessity) but they were surprisingly easy and I will definitely make them again. I think the hardest part was converting the ingredients (in metric) to the recipe (not in metric) and then whipping the frosting by hand since we don't have a mixer (I'm still too cheap to by that stuff!). Luckily when I gave up about 1/2 way through Kyle was there with his brute strength to finish up.

Since I'm not a foodie at all I pulled the cupcake and frosting recipe off of allrecipes.com

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup baking cocoa (I'm sure I used the wrong stuff - I think I used chocolate powder)
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I put in a little extra for Kyle)
  

FILLING:

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened (I used 200 g - a little less than what it calls for)
  
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (again, chocolate chips don't exist here so I made my own with some Swiss chocolate and a hammer)
  
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (I left these out)

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Add the eggs, water, oil, vinegar and vanilla; mix well. Pour into 18 greased or paper-lined muffin cups.
2. For filling, beat cream cheese and sugar in another mixing bowl. Add egg and salt; mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop by tablespoonfuls into center of each cupcake. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes.

I mixed the dry ingredients in one bowl, wet in another (like the recipe says to) then made the filling before I mixed the wet and dry together. It says it yields 18 - I made about 13, but I WAY overfilled them and kinda made a mess and then had filling left over to eat along. I think I probably could have made the 18 is said.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Cream sugar, butter and vanilla. Add a small amount of milk (1 to 2 tablespoons). Add cocoa if desired and beat until fluffy. If frosting is too sweet add a little more milk.

Everyone loved them at the party I took them to on Saturday night so I was pretty excited. I'm a really bad baker (and cook for that matter) so I get REALLY excited when something I make doesn't completely suck.