Day 13: Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

Today was a good day... I went to work late (no one noticed), walked home under a blue sky, made myself a salad, and then baked a batch of cupcakes that redeems me from my last few bad bunches. Now if I could just fit homework in there somewhere, the day would be perfect. Ah well. Perfection is not a realistic standard anyway. :)

These are delicious, and quite nice looking too. I'm learning how to wield the ziplock bag when its loaded with frosting. So thanks to exposure therapy, I'm finally over my fear of makeshift frosting pipers and can get on with my life! Phew!

I was kind of worried after I had mixed the frosting. When I dipped my finger in it to give it a taste, it reminded me too much of toothpaste for me to enjoy. But on top of the chocolate, the flavor combination worked really well! Who knew toothpaste and chocolate went so well together?!

My phone didn't pick up the green in this photo, so just imagine they are the color of the frosting in the picture above and you'll get an idea of how glorious they look in real life.