Cupcakes Make Everything Better!

Today is Memorial Day, but it's also my dad's birthday. In lieu of a birthday gift this year (I never know what to buy him anyway), I decided to bake some cupcakes - which is way better than some store bought cake anyhow.

I saw Chockylit's recipe for chocolate cupcakes stuffed with strawberry chocolate ganache and frosted with chocolate glaze and buttercream and I was in love.



The cupcakes came out sunken in the middle, which created a bit of a predicament when trying to fill them. In the end, I decided to just pour the filling into the sunken middles instead of cutting off the tops. But they were so messy and somewhat ugly that I decided to use a store-bought cake mix for a second batch. The results? The store-bought ones look pretty, but the from-scratch recipe tastes SO much better! My family loved them. They are the first thing I have baked that wasn't gluten free in a year and a half (the store-bought mix, anyway).