Sweetheart Cupcakes

   Today is my parents' 31st wedding anniversary.  Arnauld and I just celebrated our second anniversary-31 seems like more than I can ever imagine!  A few Christmases ago, my mom bought me a sampler that read "All Because Two People Fell in Love."  We displayed it at our wedding and it now sits in our living room.  It caught my eye today and I began thinking about all that has come about because my parents got married all those years ago.  I look around at all the love that exists because of them and it makes me happy that they've been able to stick it out through thick and thin.  What better way to celebrate than with cupcakes?

Sweetheart Cupcakes

Ingredients
1 box of Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 box of instand chocolate pudding
1 package of strawberries, cleaned and hulled

Method
1. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, stir in chocolate chips, and bake cupcakes.
2. Once the cupcakes have cooled, use a knife to cut out the center of the cupcake.  Place a strawberry in each cupcake and then replace the cupcake top.
3. Frost the cupcakes using the pudding.
4. Cut the cupcakes in half to reveal a sweet heart.

The Taste Test
    This is a bit of a cheater recipe with the cake mix and the instant pudding, but Wren makes my kitchen time a bit unpredictable.  As it was, today I was assembling the cupcakes at the kitchen counter while bouncing her bouncy seat with my foot.  Everything gets done, just in a more creative way these days!  But in the end cupcakes are cupcakes, homemade or not.  I didn't hear anyone complaining!

The result of all the bouncing.