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My good friend is about to have a baby any day now and last week her husband had to go out of town for the ENTIRE week. So I was on call in case she were to go into labor. Anyways, we decided I should stay close by so we hung out literally every day (plus our boys are best friends) and she had mentioned how she LOVES chocolate cupcakes so I hunted down a recipe to try. These did not disappoint! Once again the amazing bakerella supplied the recipe so I highly recommend it and I think she says she uses the special dark cocoa by Hershey's and I didn't use it but I think I will next time. It was a nice chocolaty flavor but I think using the dark cocoa would really make it extra rich.

Chocolate Cupcakes

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3 eggs, room temperature
1 1/4 c milk, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Prepare cupcake pans with 36 baking cups.
• With a wire whisk, sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl and set aside.
• In a mixer, cream sugar and butter.
• Add eggs one at a time, scraping down sides with each addition. Add vanilla.
• Add flour mixture to the creamed butter in three additions, alternating with the milk in two additions. (flour, milk, flour, milk, flour)
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until done.
• Cool and frost.

Dark Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
8 oz. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ( I used Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa)
1 box (1 lb) confectioner's sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1-3 Tbsp milk

• Cream the butter and cream cheese with a mixer.
  
• Add the cocoa and vanilla.
  
• Add the confectioner's sugar in small batches and blend on low until combined. Scrape down sides with each addition.
• Add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until you get the consistency you desire.

*Some notes-with the cupcakes I didn't have unsalted butter so I just used regular and didn't add the salt to the recipe. Once again, that was bakerellas recipe.