Texas Marshmallow Cupcakes

*1 cup Water
*2 cubes of Butter
In a sauce pan put water and butter and put own medium to low heat and bring to a boil.
In bowl mix:

*2 cups Granulated Sugar
*1/4 cup Cocoa
Then add:
*2 and 1/4 cups Flour
*1/4 teaspoon Salt

Then add the above ingredients to the water and butter.

Beat in:

*2 eggs
*1 teaspoon Baking Soda
*1 teaspoon Vanilla
*1/2 cup Buttermilk

Pour batter into cupcake pans with cupcake liners and bake in a pre -heated oven at 400* F. for 20 minutes.

Marshmallow Chocolate Frosting

*1 cup Butter
*6 tablespoons Canned Milk or Cream
In sauce pan put milk or cream and butter and bring to a boil and cool slightly.

Add:
*1/4 cup cocoa
*1 lb. Powder Sugar (minus one cup) for thick frosting shown above add 3 more cups of powdered sugar

Mix well powder sugar and cocoa before adding to wet ingredients.

*2 teaspoons Vanilla

Beat together until smooth and then add 1 cup marshmallows.

This recipe is adapted from a Texas Cake recipe from my husbands mom, Helen.

Frosted cupcakes.

We made these cupcakes the night before we frosted them.

Frosting

The above picture is what frosting looks like with 1 pound of powder sugar.

These cupcakes were part of our nautical dinner.

Enjoy!

Jessica and Lindy