Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes and Happiness

Posted on | February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

Yesterday was all about the sweetness. I spent the day in the kitchen while Chris worked on boxes of stuff in the basement, sorting and filing and throwing away. Lila floated between the two of us, helping me mix cupcakes, then running upstairs with photos and other finds to share. “Freemember this? When I was in your belly still? Look at how big your tummy is mama!” She wanted to keep that photo of my bare belly right up on the fridge. Uh, no.

Tyler spent the day reading and doing homework and never once asked to get on the computer or to play video games, which was kind of weird, but also very nice to not have that extra vibration going on in the background. Later he went to a friends’ house to play D & D for a few hours (cracks me up kids still play that…I spent so many hours hanging out with the group of kids I was friends with in high school utterly mystified by the whole thing while they gathered hit points and slayed dragons and bludgeoned one another as they tried to fulfill their make-believe quests). I guess I’ve always lacked imagination in that way.

Chris at one point stood in the kitchen while I sifted chocolate, flour, ancho chili powder, cayenne, baking powder and baking soda together. We were talking about getting the light stand finished by next weekend so we can start planting and the sun streamed in the kitchen window and Lila had her arms wrapped around his legs and he said “I really hope this stage of my life lasts a really long time. It’s so good. Everything is so good.”

And I got all teary because he isn’t usually very demonstrative in that way. But I didn’t let any tears drop into the Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes because even though they were tears of happy sweetness (just one or two, really), I don’t want to be working that kind of magic on my office mates, and that’s who the bulk of the cakes are destined for this afternoon. Drumming up business, don’t you know?

I have to tell you, these cupcakes rock the house.

Even Dora thinks so!

The cake came out super moist and the flavor is just so incredible, a sweet, mild chili and rich chocolate with an ever-so-slight, slow after burn. Lila helped me spread the layer of thick ganache, which is spiced lightly with organic cinnamon and then we piped a fat star of very vanilla buttercream (Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla) and topped that with a red hot. Goodness, I wish I could send you one, and you too!

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