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Little chocolate cupcake

I was in the mood for something small and simple. Half an hour later, I had a few trays of these mini chocolate cupcakes sitting on my kitchen counter.

I found that even grown men get all childishly gleeful if you hide mini cupcakes in their apartments while they’re away. Still others start drooling and manage to polish off a whole box of these in a single evening.

Sometimes the smallest things elicit the biggest grins.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter or margarine
• 1 1/2 cup sugar (I’ve done batches with only white sugar, only brown, or both mixed. Works fine either way)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbs molasses (you want table molasses, NOT bootstrap or unsulphured)
• 2 1/4 cups cake/pastry flour
• 1 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C / 350ºF.
2. Cream butter and sugar until well-mixed
3. Beat in one egg at a time, then add molasses
4. Add in the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon.
5. Optional: If you want to make a chocolate version, add a few spoons of cocoa powder and chocolate chips. Alternatively, you can add nuts, raisins etc for other varieties.
6. Drop spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet (I prefer to roll a heaped teaspoon of dough and flatten slightly for a smoother cookie surface).
7. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. (Okay, eat one while it’s piping hot. They’re delicious!!)
8. Serve with a cold glass of milk, or warm with some ice-cream.

These cookies keep very well if you store them in an air-tight container, with wax paper or paper towel between each layer.