Here's some items I made for a bake sale. The cupcakes are made with the recipe that I love from the chocolate blackout cake recipe

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon table salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 cup brewed coffee, at room temperature
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup white sugar
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Melt butter over medium heat. Add cocoa powder and stir well. Cook 1 minute. Remove from heat and whisk in coffee and buttermilk. Add white sugar and brown sugar and whisk until sugar is dissolved. Add eggs and vanilla and whisk well. Whisk in dry mixture, a little at a time, until fully incorporated; do not overmix.
Divide batter evenly between the prepared cake pans. 325 degrees until a few crumbs stick to tester. Not sure of the time, just keep checking after 12-15min.

The icing was a whipped ganache. It was 1lb of chocolate (I used a mixture of semi-sweet and milk chocolate). Chopped. Bring to just boiling one cup heavy cream. Poor over the chopped chocolate, also add 1/4 cup of corn syrup. Let sit for three minutes, then stir. If any chunks remain then you can reheat a bit to get those to melt. Otherwise put in fridge and stir every 15 minutes until spreading consistency for cupcakes. I wanted more of a whipped ganache, so when it was in fridge for approx one hour, I whipped it. Not sure if it was overwhipped or if it naturally lost it's shine. It was delicious though!! I also used it as the filling between the layers for the blue mini cakes. Topped with cherries from Costco, they are in stock lately and seem to be better quality than the grocery stores.

The blue mini cakes are made with my new square muffin pan from previous post. Triple layered, with the ganache filling. I bought a tiny bag of the pink flowers from Artistic cake on Merivale road. I also bought some tiny eye balls there for a sponge bob theme I will have to do soon! They are a little pricy but well worth the time it takes. I tried to do a cherry tree type theme on the cake~I don't like how the branches turned out...but it would have been easier if it was on a bigger cake I guess.