Day 2: The Basic Chocolate Cupcake

This recipe was so simple even I couldn't mess it up! It took about 15 minutes to put everything together, but it took me 3.5 hours to finish the whole process. Most of the time was spent impatiently fanning the cupcakes on the cooling rack so I could frost them.

I tried to get fancy with the frosting and put it in a little ziplock baggy to pipe it through a cut whole in the corner. Plan failed. The bag exploded on my hand while I was squeezing and it left a feces-like heap on one of the cupcakes. Luckily, frosting is malleable and I was able to smooth the poo pile with a spread of my butter knife.