Anne's Birthday Cupcakes

So this post is a little late seeing as I made these cupcakes on Wednesday, but I couldn't post about them til after my friend Annes birthday, or it would have ruined the surprise. As most of you know, I LOVE to bake cupcakes, its just so fun! So whenever there is an excuse to bake up some delicious little treats I will take advantage of it. For Anne's birthday I made devils food cake chocolate cake and my signature cream cheese icing. I was going for a turquoise colour with the icing, but it is a lot harder colouring icing then one might think! Unfortunately, there are no cupcakes left, so you will just have to imagine how delicious they were by looking at the pics!

Mixing the wet ingredients

The dry ingredients being sifted

Fresh out of the oven


All dolled up!

Cake recipe:
Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 1 1/2 cups white sugar
Add two eggs and 1 tsp vanilla, beat until smooth
Sift 1 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1/4tsp baking powder and
1tsp baking soda in a separate bowl
Boil 1 cup water
Blend into butter mixture 1/3 of the flour mixture unitl almost incorporated
Than add 1/2 cup of water, and repeat process til all is incorporated (the
flour mixture should always be added last)
Bake at 350 for 18-20 mins in a cupcake tin

Icing recipe:
Cream 1/2 cup butter and 1 pkg cream cheese (both at room temperature)
Add 2 cups icing sugar and 1tsp vanilla
Colour as you please