July 10
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Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup cocoa
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup oil
- 10 tablespoons milk
- 1¼ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
We start by preheating the oven to <temp val="400"/>. We put 24 mini cupcake papers into our mini muffin tin.
We put a sifting strainer in a large bowl. We add the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon then sift.
Into a small cup we break the egg and whisk with a fork. In a 2-cup measuring cup we add the oil, milk, egg, and vanilla. We stir the liquid with the fork and then stir in the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture with a rubber spatula. We are careful to “just” mix it in and not to overbeat.
Then, we stir in the white chocolate chips. We use a small cookie scoop to fill the cupcake paper—2 scoops per cupcake. We want the muffin cup less than three quarters full.
We bake in the oven for 15 minutes, rotating the pan halfway for even cooking.
When a toothpick in the center of the cupcake comes out clean, we remove the pan to a cooling rack.
As soon as the pan is on the rack, we top each cupcake with 2 white chocolate chips and let sit for 5 minutes. Using a toothpick, we lightly spread the melting chips over the cupcake to make a drizzle. Then we remove each cupcake from the pan to cool completely on the wire rack.
Our daughter is off to Harry Potter camp these days for a few hours every afternoon. This leaves Robin and the younger two to entertain themselves, which they do today with MarioKart Wii and cupcake baking.
Through harsh experience, Robin has found that the kids do not take turns well when cooking. Today, each was given half of the ingredients on either side of the counter. Separated thusly and following the recipe in turn, everything went very smoothly for all.
While the cupcakes were baking, everyone returned to MarioKart. Our son always finished first. The baby always finished last. Robin came in 11th in every race but one. Still, she did manage second place in that one race, so there is hope for her.
Who knows, by the end of the summer, the kids might be a well-oiled cooking machine and Robin may challenge for MarioKart supremacy in the family.