Cake # 27 Chocolate Honeycomb Cupcakes

I'm ba-ack! Lake Tahoe, California is the most beautiful place I have ever been to, I could pick up and move there in a heart beat. A co-worker and I went for a training, and we had a blast, I couldn't have imagined anyone else to go with, she is super funny and we definitely have the same philosophy when it comes to teaching. However, I did miss my Evie. So it is officially summer break, and I cannot think of anything better than watching Baby Einstein: Shakespeare with Evie, watching Evie swim in her kiddie pool, and going to the park with Evie (noticing a trend?). About the only thing that beats all of that is watching Evie chow down on my cupcakes while she growls "MMmm". These cupcakes were no exception.

They are basically cupcake batter mixed with candy and then sprinkled with candy on top- who could resist that? Not Evie. In fact, Evie has been a little spoiled with the sweets lately. We got ice-cream two days in a row and now cupcakes! I wish I could blame her, but really it was my hankering for some cold, chocolatey, goodness (well mine, and Ted sister Katie's) that led us to Blooms Broom on Thursday and Yogi Castle on Friday. Friday, we were over my in-laws and my sister-in-law asked us if we have ever eaten at Yogi Castle. We had not. So, of course we had to try this ice-cream place. It is a self-serve frozen yogurt shop, with about twenty different flavors of yogurt and forty different kinds of toppings. Because I am obnoxious, and I wanted to try things I never tried before, my ice-cream consisted of: chocolate, strawberry, cookies and cream, peanut butter, Irish mint, and banana. I was shocked and excited when I finally got to the toppings...fruity pebbles? What? Now I believe that cereal should be a food group all of its own, but I never liked fruity pebbles as a kid, so I was hesitant, but of course not too hesitant to give it a go. So my toppings were: bananas, M&Ms, gummy bears, fruity pebbles, nerds, chocolate covered raspberries, and chocolate sauce. Sound disgusting? You bet. Taste disgusting? Definitely some bites. But it was worth it.  

So when I got to the cake this morning, I thought we would go for a more simper cake. Besides chocolate covered honeycomb candy, the ingredients were flour, baking powder, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, powdered sugar, cocoa, and water. I use silicone cupcake liners, and I really enjoy using them because they are re-usable, but be careful, if you wash them and use them right after they have been washed, while they are still hot, the cupcake will not come out of the liner.

Here is the book's picture:

Here are my - well Evie's cupcakes:

Next week another cake and another day of no work- already loving it!