Yes, I made more cupcakes.  Am I going to eat them all? Heck ya.  And yes, the chocolate is droopy in the pictures.  Everything melts in the Texas summer, even with the A/C dying just to keep the temperature under 85 in the apartment.

Recipe:

Vanilla Cupcake (makes 12) I only ended up with enough batter to fill 10, and my measurements are strange because I didn’t want to make 30+

3/4 stick (6 tbsp) unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup + 2tbsp sugar
1 egg
1stp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp baking powder No baking powder, so I substituted 1/4 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp lime juice.  FYI, baking soda is 4x as strong as baking powder and needs something acidic to react with to make the cake rise.  Baking powder is just baking soda mixed with cream of tartar.  I didn’t have any tartar, so used lime juice instead.
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  Mix all the ingredients together and do not overbeat or you’re going to have very dense cupcake, scoop into cupcake papers, and bake for 16-20 minutes.  Pull them out and let them cool before frosting

Cream cheese frosting

I sort of eyeballed and mixed random things together because I didn’t want an entire batch and had an “ohhhhh I should add some of this” moment, hence the almond and the cinnamon.  I was so close to grabbing the nutmeg, mint, and sprinkles, then reminded myself it would be overload and probably taste nasty.

4 oz cream cheese, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
3 tbsp vegetable shortening ie. Crisco; Butter works fine as well, but I was out
1 cup powdered sugar I think I ended up adding about 2 cups
Dash of however much cinnamon you like, around 1 tsp

Cream the butter/shortening and cream cheese together.  Add in everything else, and keep dumping powdered sugar until you get the consistency you want.  I accidentally made it too thick and added a bit of milk to smooth it out.

Chocolate filigree

Melt about 1/4 cup of Nestle chocolate morsel things in the microwave.  Lay out wax paper on a cutting board.  Spoon the chocolate into a parchment bag, snip off the very tip, and pipe whatever decorations you want.  Let it sit in the freezer for about 15 min and they should peel right off the wax paper.