The 10th recipe we made from Linda’s Collister’s Baking with Kids cookbook and Wee One #2 totally took over! I was so impressed with her! She has really become a mini domestic goddess in training and it’s so sweet to see!!

Chocolate Cupcakes – from Baking With Kids (p. 17) Cake: 1 1/2 cups four 1 tsp baking powder pinch of salt 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 3/4 cup sugar 7 tbsp unsalted butter, softened 2 extra-large eggs 1/2 cup whole milk Frosting: 3 1/2 oz bittersweet chocolate 1 tbsp light corn syrup 2 tbsp unsalted butter
Preheat your oven to 350F. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa and sugar.	This little miss is very precise, dontcha know.
Add the butter to the bowl, and crack your eggs into a small bowl first to be sure you don’t get any shells in your cupcakes (this is especially important when your helper is under 10 years old).	Theeeeen dump them into the mixing bowl.
Now add the milk!	Mix until you have a nice, smooth batter.
Divide the batter between 12 muffin cups – either grease the pan or use cupcake liners. Bake for about 20 minutes and voila!
For the frosting, break up whatever chocolate you like, (just make sure there’s about 3 1/2 oz of it), with the syrup and the butter. Melt it all together over a pan of hot water and mix till it’s all melty.
Wee One #2 attacked all 12 cupcakes with frosting and then covered them in jelly beans, life savers and whatever other candies she could get her little hands on. So cute and way too yummy!