My eldest sister is giving a despedida dinner for my inay at her place tonight.  So out of the blue, I decided to try the Chocolate Surprise Cupcake recipe I saw from Allrecipes.com as a little contribution.  I usually make half of the published ingredient first specially if it’s my first time to try the recipe.  Para d naman sayang.  But then, I was confident enough that I could do this without a glitch.  Madali lang naman sya. Lo and behold, wala na pala akong flour!  I only have enough for a dozen instead of 2 dozens of cupcakes.  Pwede na rin.  So I prepared mixing the ingredients and found out that my chocolate mix can make 24 cupcakes but not sure though with the cream cheese filling.  Pinilit ko na lang :D  It tastes good according to the people who have tasted it (sila yaya G, yaya J and hamey).  For me, may kulang!  Then I realized that I made do with my cream cheese filling good for 12 cupcakes to 24 cupcakes, shucks!   Lesson learned!

I’ll definitely make another one of these and I plan to make a cake with deco for my niece on her birthday this coming February.  Got really inspired by Cafe Munchkin again!  Idol! I have never really tried decorating cake with cream frosting. I’ve only tried Gnache with Chocolate Buttermilk Frosting (d ko mahanap link nito! pft!) on my Dark Chocolate Cake for Vera’s 5th month birthday in 2007. And another simple ref cake for her 7th month birthday. If you check the two cakes, wala akong creativity nalalaman sa katawan :D I guess both turned OK specially the ref cake. Simut e!

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