I meant to post this yesterday, but it totally slipped my mind. Anyway, this week was kind of my cheat week, as I mentioned last week. I’ve baked these vanilla cupcakes about a million times, and they are my go-tos when I need cupcakes fast. And as I mentioned last week, I was pretty sure I hadn’t made the chocolate cupcakes before, which turned out to be true. They were as easy as the vanillas:

These cupcakes were baked as the blank canvases for children at my work to decorate for Easter and springtime. One of my co-workers also baked some chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Together we ended up with about ten dozen!

I decorated a few cupcakes beforehand to give the kids ideas:

From left to right, that’s Worms In Dirt, Peep Chick with Eggs and Peep Rabbit with Eggs.

The Worms in Dirt was my favorite. I chopped Chocolate Graham Crackers in my food processor to create dirt:

I frosted the chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting and then rolled it around in the ‘dirt’. A gummy worm was added. I tried to make a little grass with green frosting, but it didn’t work out so well:

The kids also had the option of just dumping tons of candy on their cupcakes, which seemed to be the most popular choice. Unfortunately, I couldn’t take any photos.

Sorry this week’s entry is so short. But stayed tuned this weekend when I attempt to make cream puffs for Easter. And hopefully the blog entry will be super-exciting.