Triple Chocolate Cupcakes

I cannot believe that it is already the beginning of November! The Christmas commercials and movie marathons (I’m looking at you, Hallmark Channel) have already begun and my neighbors have started putting out holiday decor. I swear the first day of Autumn wasn’t all too long ago – time flies!

For whatever reason, my mind wandered and it landed on the movie Fight Club. For those of you who have seen it, you know what I mean when I gush about Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and how the plot makes you think.

The part that popped into my head was from the beginning of the movie where Norton’s character is taking non-stop business trips as an insurance adjuster and his character has an inner dialogue where he says he only experiences single serving events such as food to friends. It’s a smidge depressing.

That got me thinking about how my husband enjoys single serving desserts in a very positive way. It’s his preference and sometimes I wonder if it’s just so he can have more than one variety, which is logic I can’t argue with. For his birthday, I baked a recipe of my triple chocolate cupcakes because he loves chocolate. It was a match made in heaven for him!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

There was a time early in my baking life when I made cupcakes from a not-to-be-named boxed cake mix. I believe I just heard a large collective gasp from all the bakers out there! In my defense, I wasn’t very experienced and I enjoyed the texture of boxed mix since it was soft and moist. With much insistence from my husband, I made it my mission to find from-scratch cake recipes that had the same qualities that I enjoyed from prepared mix.

Let me tell you that it took a few tries. The first red velvet recipe I tried was butter and all-purpose flour based which resulted in a very dense cupcake. The second attempt also called for all-purpose flour, but a little less cocoa which gave me a less than flavorful cake. Finally, the third time was the charm!