Remember that one time earlier this week when I professed my love for all things vanilla? And then just a few days later I made something screaming with dark chocolate goodness?
This is real life y’all – welcome to 38 weeks of pregnancy where everything sounds good the second you even so as mention it’s name. Case in point: dark chocolate. FEED ME. I WANT. I NEED.
Gimme gimme gimme.
P.S. When I was in high school and oh-so-mature my friend Julie and I listened to a story from her brother about a family in Hawaii he knew that called all of their kids Cakey and thus, clearly, we started calling one another “Cakey” all the time.
Now that I’m a significantly more mature 28-year-old (OMG. This story happened 10 years ago. Excuse me whilst I go sob a little…) I’ve come to realize that they called their kids “Keiki” which sounds like “Cakey” and actually means “child” in Hawaiian. Therefore in all of our infinite 18-year-old wisdom we were wandering the halls of our school calling one another children.
Is this relevant? No. I just thought I’d share. Because it’s Friday and we all need to partake in a little cakey/keiki goodness!
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup canola oil (vegetable oil or melted butter will also work)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 pint whole raspberries, washed and dried
Preheat oven to 350 and line a muffin tin with muffin cups. Whisk together the sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla and milk until smooth and completely mixed. Add in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt and whisk until the ingredients are combined. Gently fold in the raspberries. Scoop into lined muffin cups, filling about 2/3 of the way full. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Frost with your favorite frosting (I kept with the berry theme and topped them with the Triple Berry Cream Cheese Frosting, but pick your favorite frosting and go to town!) when the cupcakes are completely cooled!
I’m not pregnant and I can’t stop thinking about dark chocolate, so I can only imagine what you’re going through. Feed the need lady, feed the need 😉 Congrats on the baby, by the way!
These look and sound amaaaazing 🙂 yummmm!!
That story with your friend sounds like something me and my friends would have done while we were in high school- and looking back not realizing what we had done and now we get to call eachother and laugh out loud at the children we were (even at 18) ….These look yummy and I’m not 38 weeks but I really want to eat those NOW!
I need these!
I love chocolate and raspberry together!
Ohh that does sound so good – i am with you – a lot of things sound really good these days. I am still waiting. . .
That totally reminded me. I used to run kids programs and we were looking for a super fun cute name for them, so I looked up Beautiful Children in Hawaiian and it was Nana Keikis! So that’s what our groups name became!! (It was ages 5-7).. so cute – they loved it!! 🙂
These look delicious, Heather!
These sound freaking fantastic!
I am on a diet right now… your killing me 😀
I just read your GDM story — bless your heart. It’ll be okay. 🙂
These cupcakes look fantastic and I agree with you…I see why people go crazy for all things cupcakes!
looks absolutely delicious!
ANYTHING chocolate + raspberry and you have my attention. Your pregnancy cravings are awfully beneficial to the rest of us 🙂