Chocolate Cuppies

So where's the best place for me to start looking for chocolate cakes recipes wihout spending a cent on a cookbook... the Internet of course, and there are just so many different kinds. Being an amateur, I started looking for the easiest recipe I can find one and what can be easier than a One Bowl Chocolate Cake recipe. Reading the reviews of the recipe also gave me the idea of them into cupcakes as they are smaller and not as intimidating as the big 9 inch ones. My hands were also itching to try frosting on my own but I can't remember which was the frosting recipe that I had used. I can only remember that it was something, yup you guess it, chocolatey. So here's my very first attempt at baking and frosting on my very 1st cupcakes some 9 months ago (July 2009).

Mark was my 1st guinea pig and he loved them and I decided his opinion was not objective enough so I brought them to office for more objective opinion and I got some good reviews for them and that really encouraged me to start exploring more into the world of baking and of course improve on my frosting skills! 

How it all started...

One weekday afternoon, my dearest friend Sharon msned me a link to a cheesecake baking class at Creative Baking and asked if I’m interested in attending with her. I said yes and the rest was history.

What hooked me? It was piping those small lil carrots on the cream cheese frosting of the carrot cake that I baked in the class. My very first attempt at cake decorating…

After the class, I couldn’t get my mind off those little piped carrots and baking but I can't do anything without a mixer. I didn't want to get an expensive mixer as I dunno how long this passion of mine will last. So each time I went to Carrefour or walked pass any of the electrical departmental store and I would look out eager for any mixer that's on offer. Cheapo me was not willing to spend anything above $20 for a mixer. Hee! Of course I can't find any! Sweet hubby of mine came home one night and surprised me with a Philips mixer! I was so so happy, heart pain that it cost way above what I wanted to pay, but super duper happy and excited! 


What better way to thank Mark for his nice surprise then to bake for him and so I turned to him and ask what would he like me to bake for him. His answer… Chocolate Cakes! Chocolate cake it is and off I went in search of the ‘perfect’ chocolate cake recipe…my first bake!