Back to School Cupcakes

Well, Erma, the kids are back in school and it is time to begin think Fall! Now, if the temperature would just think Fall!. We have been extremely hot too, and I have not been inspired to do a lot of cooking in the kitchen.

I did make a double batch of Back To School Cupcakes for Sally to take with her to share with her class. Seems like it was only yesterday that I was making them for her mother to take to share with her class. I starting making them when the kids began elementary school, and they kept requesting them in Care Packages from home while they were away at college. That says something about a plain old cupcake.

Back to School Cupcakes:

¼ cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/3 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
½ teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter and sugar in mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder in bowl. Alternate adding flour and milk to butter. Stir in the vanilla.

Fill greased or silicone muffin cups 2/3 full, or use cupcake papers. Bale at 375 for 20 minutes. Cool on baking rack.

When cold, make the following frosting:

Frosting:

2 oz. Unsweetened chocolate
¼ cup water
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla

Melt chocolate in water in saucepan. Add all the remaining ingredients. Beat with a portable hand mixer, or with a large whip until of spreading consistency.

Yields 1 dozen cupcakes.