Quote Originally Posted by annie
What flavor cupcakes were they???? I prefer plain vanilla myself, but I bet there's quite a few chocolate lovers here!!

annie
They were chocolate, using the Betty Crocker Black Midnight Cake recipe, substituting 3/4 c butter for the 3/4 c shortening and reducing the water to 1 c. Baked ~ 15 minutes. Also, rather than dumping and mixing, used the traditional creaming method (cream butter and sugar, add eggs, sift dry ingredients together and add alternating with remaining wet ingredients). The icing was the Wilton buttercream used in the decorating classes, substituting butter for half the shortening, and reducing the water by 1 or 2 Tbs.

I think I can ice some helmets onto those cup cakes ... what a great idea for our next bike and barbecue (bike Fairmount Park, then grilling back home)!