Worm in the Mud Cupcakes

"Whatever Cupcakes"

I know Halloween is gone but I wanted to share these "whatever cupcakes" I made this Halloween. Why I'm calling these whatever cupcakes, because in my mind I planned to make my regular cupcakes but then I realized that DD wanted Chocolate one this time.....so i added little bit of cocoa powder then I noticed I don't have enough buttermilk & I also like to throw in a spoon or two of almond meal to make things little bit more healthy. So this recipe is more of a guideline then exact......

Ingredients :

• 1 cup all purpose flour (maida)
• 2 tblsp. whole wheat flour(Chappati atta)
• 2 tblsp. cocoa powder
• 2 tblsp. almond meal (fine or coarse grind almonds)
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 2 squirts of honey
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar(sugar is less then regular b'coz I planned to do icing)
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup regular milk
• approximately 1/4 cup orange juice(water or milk can be used)
• around 6-7 Oreo cookies broken into pieces.
• few gummy worms

As I wrote above one thing lead to another, so I basically used muffin technique. Mixed all the dry ingredients in one bowl. Take another bowl mix together buttermilk, milk, honey & sugar using a whisk. Now add dry stuff to wet mixture & whisk it together, if you feel batter is too tight add little bit of orange juice at a time, mix together till u get nice cupcake consistency batter.

Now pour approximately 1 tblsp. of batter into each muffin mould then sprinkle few broken pieces of cookies & then pour rest of the batter on top(that's for the surprise when u bite into it, alternatively you can use choc. chips or coarsely grind nuts also). Bake them at 350 degree F for around 20 minutes, till the toothpick comes out clean.

Once cool do your favourite icing & then again sprinkle them with few broken pieces of Oreo cookies & for worm part just make a hole in the cupcake using the backside of wooden spoon(the one which have round handles) & stick a gummy worm in it .

Note : I didn't used any butter or fruit sauce & buttermilk is also less then how much I use regularly, so these are best eaten at room temperature or warm. If you eat them direct from the fridge you might feel them little hard & also less sweet,but warm tasted very good.