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| Pile the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl |
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| Stir all those ingredients together |
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| It should look like this |
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| Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and mix for 2 minutes |
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| Stir in the boiling water. It should be thin. |
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| Now it's time to pour it into your cake pan or cupcake pan like I did :) |
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| check out my cute cupcake liners :) |
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| I like to use a 1/3 Cup measuring spoon to "pour" the batter into the cupcake pan because otherwise, things could get really messy! |
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| Here they are 2/3 C full of batter and ready to go into the oven! |
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| While the cupcakes are baking I'm preparing the frosting |
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| When you don't use or have a microwave, this is how you melt butter... boiling water underneath a glass bowl or in this case a Pyrex measuring cup. (Make sure it's a heavy glass though, otherwise melting or breaking could be an issue! Safety first!) |
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| Here's a fact you may not want to know... In one can of soda you are drinking this much sugar! Crazy isn't it? No wonder it taste's so good! |
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| Once you have your butter melted, use a medium bowl to beat together the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, milk and cocoa. Be sure to do this in order. Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount of additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. |
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| Yum...Homemade Chocolate Frosting! |
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| Cupcake Timer Ringing! |
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| I like the traditional toothpick testing method. If it comes out clean then you have some baked cupcakes! |
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| They are done and ready to take out to cool! |
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| They look so good! |
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| Just some more picture's to show you the texture of these good lookin' cupcakes! |
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| I use a table knife to gently maneuver the cakes out of the pan. Be careful not to push against them to hard, otherwise you will have a cupcake with a punched in side. |
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| Set them on the cooling rack until completely cooled. |
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| Because I only have a six cupcakes pan I had to put several batches in the oven. When you get to the end and don't have enough batter to make the last couple then fill 1/3 of the cup with water so that you protect your pan and it will distribute even baking throughout your pan. |
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| and they are done! |
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| Now Eat One! :) |
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| This recipe gives you a moist texture that is somewhere between a fudge brownie and a cake! |
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| Hope you enjoyed the night in the kitchen with Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake Recipe! |
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| Joe is taking off the cabinet doors and as you can see all the upper part of the walls are a beautiful medium gray! |
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| We are completely in love with these colors :) As you can see these cabinets are the last to be painted! |
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| So nice to see something clean and put back together! All we have left in the kitchen are some cabinets! |
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| Looking into the dining room from the kitchen |
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| See how the top has the deep line? and no matter how much paint you try to stuff in it it always comes back? |
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| You will come to find that one of my top 5 favorite cleaning products is the magic eraser. I use an off-brand kind called Xtreme Sponge which you can get here. Just wet your eraser with warm water, squeeze out the extra water and lightly rub the surface and presto! You have a perfectly white and clean refrigerator! |
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| This is the wall color. It's the same as the kitchen. |
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| This is the wall color finished. The trim has been primed but not painted. |
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| Priming the dark wood so we can paint it white. |
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| Tried to get a different angle for you :) This was taken from the doorway in the kitchen by the stove. |
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| Yep, he got me good. |
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| Smores!! |
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| Hoping for a few warm, spring-like days real soon!! |
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| Before |
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| Before |
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| shot from bathroom looking out into the hall |
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| Yes. The hallway was half baby blue and half tan! :P |
