In case you were wondering, the brown swirls are a chocolate-hazelnut spread.

The recipe actually called for Nutella, but since I couldn't find a bottle I used something similar to it. And it turned out great, anyway. My mother said it was good. So did my Granddad.

I baked 24 originally, but when the first batch came out, my dad ate one and a half, my Grandma took one and my Granddad took one, and I ate the remaining half to see if it turned out well.

Anyway [again], the main reason for baking on a weekday is because there was some project in the Young Food Scientist card that said something like, bake a cake and find out how the yeast makes the cake rise.

*Cupcakes ARE actually cakes, just cakes in a cup.*

So I told SJL that I could do that activity today, so he agreed. Then he took his version of a double take and asked if I could bake. *You all know my answer.*

He said that if I baked it, I'd add extra poison and give it to him tomorrow, so that it would burn his gullet and slowly consume his innards.

He didn't say it word for word [just in case you were wondering how his command of English miraculously became so wonderful], I translated it into proper [exxagerated] English.

HA. Wait till he sees it tomorrow.

Oh yeah, I added chocolate chips on the top of the cupcakes as well, so you bite into dark chocolate, plus hazelnut chocolate. And it has a crisp top and a moist chocolaty inside.

Woo-hoo, my best work yet. I'm surely baking these again.