Rocky Road Cupcakes

So today is my first day of this blog, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to go about it but the general idea is it's going to be about all the wonderful (I hope) treats that I bake.
Starting with this, post number one - Rocky Road Cupcakes.

So for these, I basically just made a load of chocolate cupcakes using this recipe:

• 150g butter, room temperature
• 300g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 280g plain flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 350ml water

Whisked all that stuff together in a bowl and added a few marshmallows and chocolate chips. Then put those bad boys into cases and into the oven on 180 degrees for around twenty minutes. After letting them cool, I combined icing sugar, cocoa powder and butter to make icing and piped them on to the cakes. (Side note - my piping bag actually broke before doing this is instead, I used a freezer bag with a hole cut in the corner. Does the job just fine!)
After icing the cakes I used crunchy chocolate balls, marshmallows and chocolate chunks to decorate.

I made these cakes with a 8 year old girl for a fun activity. You don't even wanna see some of the other stuff we made (lots of blue icing).