Hi.  My name is Cath, and I am a cupcake-a-holic.

As you may have gathered, I love to cook, and especially bake.  I do love all kinds of baking, but at the end of the day, as much as I love macarons, cakes, biscuits and brownies, my true love is cupcakes.  They are cute little packages of delight, sure to bring a smile to anyone’s dial.  For years and years and years and years they have been my go to treat and a few of the many varieties I have made are lemon and lime, red velvet (it started the whole red velvet craze in my world), chocolate, lemon meringue and the trusty old vanilla.  I love cupcakes that much that I have cupcakes on my dressing gown, apron, two bags, a tea towel and a cupcake shaped plate.  I am also going to be getting a vinyl sticker for a wall in my kitchen that reads “love and cupcakes are all you need” after seeing a print that Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction received.  So yes, a little obsessed over here.

So for my first foray back into the cupcake world after a long hiatus, I asked my friend C what her favourite chocolate bar was to inspire a cupcake for her birthday.  Originally I was going to call these Turkish Delight cupcakes (as that was the answer to my question), and I guess I sort of can because the flavour is essentially there.  But when you search for Turkish Delight cupcakes on the interweb, there usually is Turkish Delight in/on them.  So I am going to go with the much longer name of Chocolate Cupcakes with Rose Buttercream.  Phew!

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