I am obsessed with chocolate. I love pretty much any sweets, but if there isn't chocolate involved, it's almost not worth it to me. So most of the things I like to bake usually include a healthy portion of chocolate. Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting. White cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Chocolate cupcakes with cookies-and-cream frosting. Chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips. You get the picture.
The BF, however, doesn't quite get it. He doesn't need chocolate the way I do. He's perfectly happy with fruit snacks, prefers jellybeans to candy bars, and likes pie (and not even chocolate pie). Oh, he'll eat any of my chocolatey baking creations, of course. But if there were no more chocolate ever, it wouldn't be his end of the world. Crazy, I know, but that just means more for me.
So a couple of weeks ago, when he walks into my apartment, he's on the phone with his mom, and she's telling him about these snickerdoodle cupcakes she was making. And he is just super excited about these cupcakes, and all but asks her to email me the recipe right at that moment. We both assured him, the recipe is on Pinterest, I'll be able to find it there.
A couple of weeks later a friend hosted a family dinner night, so I decided to make the snickerdoodle cupcakes for dessert. I used this recipe, minus the cookies, because I didn't have time to bake both things. When I showed up to dinner with my cake-taker full of snickerdoodle cupcakes, oh he was so excited. I think between the 5 of us at dinner we ate at least a dozen of those cupcakes.
And I have to admit, despite the lack of chocolate, they were really good. The BF got the leftovers though.
