Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes

Extra candy canes laying around from Christmas? Whip up these Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes with yummy cream cheese icing. They are also festive for Valentine’s Day parties. I made these for a Christmas party and everyone kept asking where I bought them…as if!

Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix
• 1 can of cream cheese frosting
• 2 tsp peppermint extract
• 1 candy cane

Follow the instructions on the bake of the cake mix. Add in peppermint extract and stir. Pour in muffin tins and bake according to the box instructions. Let cool. In a Ziploc bag, add the cream cheese icing. Press all towards one corner and twist the top of the bag. Snip off the corner of the bag so you can pipe out the icing. Start from the outside and pipe in. Smash a candy cane and crumble over the top of each cupcake.

Use local and/or organic ingreds if available.