Saying Yes

I will say yes to my children more often than no.

Because when I asked Sabrina what she wanted to do and she said make chocolate cupcakes my first thoughts were what a pain, we don't have the ingredients, you don't need the sugar, the kitchen is all clean.

But I said okay, and in return got a happy lovely girl and great cupcakes too. And I was right, we didn't have the ingredients to make the frosting, but I melted some chocolate chips to spread on top.

I got the recipe from Baking with Kids--it was much quicker and easier than the Martha Stewart recipe I have used in the past that requires beating the butter forever and adding ingredients one at a time. This recipe is perfect for kids--hand mixing, ingredient dumping, it's all simplified and truly the taste does not suffer much.

Recipe:

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1/4 unsweetened cocoa
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 7 tablespoons super soft butter
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup whole milk

Instructions

• Preheat over to 350 degrees
• Mix dry ingredients together
• Add butter
• Whip eggs in separate bowl and add to first bowl
• Add milk
• Mix all together with spoon until smooth
• Spoon into pan
• Bake for 20 minutes
• Let cool
• Frost with your favorite frosting or melt some chocolate chips and spread on. Add sprinkles. The chocolate will harden if you put it in the fridge for 5 minutes, or will stay soft if left on counter.