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In case you haven't heard, Valentine's Day is creeping up on us this weekend. Sure you could go all "bah humbug" about it, if you're in that kind of mood (and frankly, who isn't in mid-February?). Or you could go all out and declare your feelings with a run to the local market for a flocked velvet heart, filled with assorted chocolates. Exactly what does that say about your love?
I say let's use Valentine's Day as another excuse to bake something sweet and delicious. A day to eat chocolate without guilt, whether it was a gift from a friend or a gift foryourself. A day to send little love notes in lunchboxes and cupcakes for the class party.
Bonus Baby kindly offered her mom, the food blogger, to be Chief Cupcake Maker for the third grade class. I don't think they are allowed to call it a party, and they're not even supposed to have sugary snacks (the classroom being the new frontier in the fight against childhood obesity.)
But again, it's Valentine's Day, and I mean to keep it dedicated to all things sweet.
So we made chocolate cupcakes a la Martha Stewart. You can make them in one bowl, no butter required - it's almost too easy. We frosted them with the ooey-gooey marshmallow frosting I wrote about a few weeks ago. And we decorated them. So cute! And the sweetest part isn't the sugar - it's baking with the BB.
