GARDEN COOKIES

You may not believe it but I've failed making a simple chocolate cupcake one too many times. Too dry, too blant you name it. One evening, I started to follow a recipe to make the perfect choc cupcake. Due to my small kitchen, I placed the batter on my sink when hubs accidentally washed his hands over the precious batter! I almost cried. Threw the whole thing away.

Heart ache over the precious butter wasted, a recipe called for a butter substitution with vegetable oil. Off I start fresh. The completed batter smelled heavily of vegetable oil and tasted like vegetable oil. Perhaps, I should just bake it and fingers crossed the oil aroma will be gone. Off I sat waiting for the batch to bake. I knew something's not right when I smell NO chocolate and only vegetable oil! Looking into the oven, muffins were soaked with oil and erupted with white bubbles. A taste test got me shaking. It's as if the muffins were made with oil and I made 12 of those. Hubs tasted it. With a serious face as not to hurt my feelings after the earlier accident, he said "It's really horrible"

I ain't sleeping tonight until I get the perfect chocolate cupcake! Me starting to get a little crazy!

I threw away the recipes I found. Recalculated and made the recipe my own. For the third time of that night at almost 1AM, a moist and chocolate-y chocolate cupcake batch came out of the oven! 19th July -the 1AM EUREKA CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE was born!