Welcome home! Chocolate zucchini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!

Welcome to my new kitchen! I am so thankful to be here and final able to bake again, after what has felt like months of being in transition. I have realized (again) that baking is one of my happy places. I love to bake!

When I thought about having our first dinner party with friends in our new house, I thought I'd make one of my favourite things to eat and after a 6 months blogging hiatus I thought I'd make a nostalgic recipe! Chocolate zucchini muffins, more like cupcakes. I thought I would jazz them up with a cream cheese frosting.

These muffins are very reminiscent of Costco double chocolate muffins circa 1996; I can still remember going over to my friends house and hoping they had some left over from their weekly Costco shopping trip.

Mix 2 eggs, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla and 1&1/2 cup of shredded zucchini.

Add in 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa, 3/4 tap baking soda, 1/4 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp salt. 

Mix well and add in 3/4 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips.

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes

I like to use an icecream scoop for my muffins and cupcakes. This is great especially when you're icing the cupcakes; ensures they are all the same size.



Some one has a sweets radar and appeared to have a taste test! He approved.

One of the perks of working from home...

Lunch break! My personal chef made me the most delicious BLT; on my mother in laws homemade spelt bread; delicious. I don't usually eat bacon but sometime you just need bacon; am I right?!

Now to take these "muffins" to the next level; I mixed up my favourite cream cheese icing.

Mix 2 bricks of room temperature cream cheese, 1/4 cup softened of unsalted butter, with  1tsp of vanilla and 2 cups of icing sugar with the paddle attachment.

No fail and it's even good by itself! No I'm serious!

I put my icing in the fridge for a few hours before piping the cupcakes.

They were a hit; and serving them outside was my friends genuine idea! No mess, no clean up!

The kids had a blast. So great to be able to entertain again.

Here's the next CEO! I taught him to say "you're fired!" just for my enjoyment!