American Dessert
CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH CREAM-CHEESE FROSTING
INGREDIENTS
CUPCAKE
6 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons confectionary sugar
3 tablespoons granular sugar
2 eggs
3 tablespoons milk
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
FROSTING
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
3/4 cream cheese
UTENSIL
cookie sheet
12 paper cups
electric beater.
PREPARATION
Take butter out and let it soften. Beat eggs lightly. (After all, they rarely ever beat you. They don’t even seem to try.) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Put softened butter, confectionary sugar, and granula. Use same r sugar in mixing bowl. Use beater set on mix until butter and sugars have blended. Add milk, chocolate chips, flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoasetting on beater to blend all the ingredients.
Spoon an equal amount of the batter into each paper cup. Put the cups onto the cookie sheet. Put cookie sheet on center rack and cook at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes or until fork stuck into cupcake comes out cleanly.
Put white chocolate chips in small pot. Cook on low heat until all chips have melted. Stir constantly. Put cream cheese in mixing bowl. Add melted white chocolate chips. Blend with electric beater set to cream. (Some electric beaters have a “burst of power” button. It’s cool, like accelerating a FerrariTM. Well, maybe not. But a cool electric beater costs tens of thousands of dollars less.)
Meanwhile, put an equal amount of the white frosting on top of cupcakes. Serve to deserving people.
TIDBITS
1) Chocolate comes from the Aztec word “xocolatl” meaning bitter water.
2) My spell checker does not recognize “xocolatl.” Perhaps this is fair as the Aztecs didn’t recognize what sugar could do for cocoa.
3) But the 15th century Spaniards did. So, the Spanish royalty sent conquistadors and chefs to the new land.
4) After a generation of bloody conquest of Mexico, the sugar isles of the Caribbean were safe for hot chocolate.
5) Lacking minimal amounts of No DozTM or even Red BullTM energy drinks, Napoleon carried chocolate with him on all his military campaigns.
6) Napoleon’s energized armies racked up victory after victory until his enemies starting carrying chocolate as well. Defeat for the French became certain when chocolate rich Switzerland defected from the Gallic side.
7) The world today remains in a state of precarious peace, based on equal access to chocolate for all nations.
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