'You're Old' Cupcakes

Cupcakes

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (180C). Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the cocoa powder, flour, salt, baking soda and sugar. Turn mixer on low speed and allow it to mix for a couple minutes to help everything combine well (or sift the ingredients together). Add in the softened butter until no lumps of butter are visible and it’s well incorporated into the dry ingredients.

Next, add milk, eggs, and vanilla together and whisk until well combined. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until combined. Scrape down the bowl and mix for another 20 seconds.

Fill each paper 3/4 of the way (using an ice cream scoop to transfer the batter into the cupcake liners makes this a quick and easy process!). (You may find that you have some batter left over - I don't really recommend over-filling your cupcake tins; they can overflow and make a mess. I often bake some mini cupcakes with the leftover batter).

Bake for 20-25 min or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow them to cool completely on a wire cooling rack before frosting.

Frosting / Decorations

Beat together softened cream cheese and butter; slowly add in powdered sugar alternating with cocoa powder and milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. Add vanilla and salt if needed and beat until well combined.

Transfer your chocolate frosting into your large piping bag fitted with a round tip – pipe in swirls onto the tops of your cupcakes, lifting away at the center to resemble the poop emoji!

Press two candy eyes onto each cupcake. Take your fondant and roll it out to about 1/8" thickness, and with a small circle cutter or bottle cap cut out 12 circles. Cut each one in half, and press into the frosting to make the emoji mouths.

Last final step – I used ‘Harlow Solid Italic’ in Microsoft word to print my cake topper; you could purchase a topper online or print-and-cut one like I did!