Confessions of a Fitness Instructor

Welcome to the very first Cupcake of the Month recipe/post!  Like my cupcake image?  I’m having my designer (aka husband) make me a cute little button to put on my sidebar to link to the current cupcake of the month recipe, and then the whole list of past months will be linked under the recipe section.

For this first recipe, I must have still had lava cakes on the brain because when I saw a recipe for molten chocolate cupcakes I knew I had to give them a try!

I followed the recipe loosely (I rarely follow recipes exactly…) and when it came time to put the batter in the cupcake liners it just didn’t seem right

it was such a dry dough, drier than any cake, cookie or brownie recipe I’ve ever made.  I really thought it was going to be a total write-off, but I decided to give the recipe the benefit of doubt and carry-on and I’m glad I did, while they weren’t like your traditional cupcake (they have more of a chocolate pound cake or brownie consistency) they were very tasty and had a very short life span – I don’t believe they lived to see the sun set…

chocolate added to centre of each cupcake

cupcakes ready for the oven

the finished product!

One thing I really like about this recipe is that it only makes 6.  So often recipes make like 2 dozen cupcakes and even if you cut the recipe in half you’re left with a dozen cupcakes to eat.  Not that, that is really a terrible problem, but it is certainly nice to have a recipe that make just a small batch for those times you don’t want a whole slew of cupcakes!

Despite the impressiveness of the molten centre, these are a super easy cupcake to make, okay one last time let’s take a look at the ooey gooey delightfulness that is the molten chocolate cupcake…

Enjoy!

Let me know if you give this a try!

Now the hunt is on for the perfect Christmas cupcake recipe for next month!

**Recipe adapted from the cookbook Easy Recipes Published in 2009 by Parragon Books Ltd.