Crafting

This weekend has been nice and quiet, so I took the opportunity to do a bit of crafting! I'm hoping to build up my range of products in order to stock up my etsy shop again, and maybe even give a craft fair a go.

After dinner cupcakes...

As a lover of baking, chocolate and cake, I'm obviously a huge lover of chocolate cake. A little while ago I decided to try a minty twist on a regular chocolate cake recipe and I thought I'd share the results and the super simple recipe with you!

For the chocolate cake I used this recipe:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1155643/amazing-chocolate-cupcakes- ...but obviously, if you have a favourite chocolate cake recipe you can just use that! I also added crushed up dark chocolate for a richer, after dinner mint flavour too.

For the butter icing I just used a regular recipe with unsalted butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence and added a hint of peppermint flavouring to taste. 

For the decoration I used pieces of After Eight mints (I tried to use whole mints, but they were almost the same size as the cakes themselves :P).