Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

Who doesn't love a good old Hostess cupcake? Chocolaty icing, yummy cream filling and a decadent cupcake...except the last time I had one it wasn't quite the cupcake I remembered and loved as a kid. So in turn I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands and try my hand at my own version of the cupcake. To start off I researched a bunch of recipes for Hostess Cupcakes until I came up with what I thought was the perfect recipe. I decided that I wanted a very moist cupcake and opted to go with my favorite chocolate cake recipe - Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake. The cake choice was perfect, it got thumbs up all around, but then again that may be due to the cream filling, because really what's a Hostess Cupcake without the cream filling?

Chocolate Fudge Crinkle Cookies

I can remember back to when I was really little turning the pages of my mom's red Betty Crocker cookbook. It was my mom's go to cookbook for dessert and bread recipes. I had make the chocolate chip cookie recipe out of the book more times than I can count, but that wasn't the recipe that stuck out to me every time I opened that book. The page before the chocolate chip cookie recipe was a recipe for chocolate crinkle cookies, I would drool over the picture imagining how delicious these cookies must be, but never actually made them. Don't ask me why, I don't know if I ever even asked my mom to make them for me, I just know I have never made them before. A local health food store makes them and they are just delicious and still I have yet to make them.