S'more what? I haven't had anything yet!

In light of the fact that I had to take something to work for our department's 'food day', the fact that everyone expects me to bring cupcakes, and the fact that that one child actor from 'The Sandlot' was arrested for domestic battery (reminiscing led to the title of this post), I decided to make S'mores cupcakes. I also made something I've dubbed quadruple chocolate bypass cupcakes, but these S'mores ones were the clear winner:

I've been toying with the idea of making them for awhile after a failed attempt a couple years back to make s'mores brownies (I blame a slight mishap with the graham crackers). All day at work on Friday, I pondered what kind of cake I was going to do. I wanted something that was actually going to taste like a graham cracker, and the few recipes I'd seen online merely used a regular yellow cake mix, which I personally think is the lazy man's way of doing things. Luckily, Nabisco has a recipe for just such a thing. I was able to make about 4 dozen mini cupcakes with the following recipe:

1/2 c. butter, softened
3/4 c. sugar
2 eggs, room temp
1 c. milk
1 c. flour
1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat to incorporate. Add flour and graham crackers crumbs. Beat in milk, baking powder, and salt. Spoon into lined cupcake tins. Bake at 350, 15 minutes.

The cupcake part was really simple. The frosting was a bit frustrating. Marshmallow creme, ftw! It's bad enough that that stuff is as sticky as it is, but WHY, pray tell, does Kraft insist on packaging it in this asinine shaped container?!

That is one mystery I have yet to unravel. Moving forward, the frosting was such:

2 7oz. containers marshmallow cream
1 stick butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 32 oz. package powdered sugar

After you've just about lost your mind scooping the contents of the jars of creme into a mixing bowl, cream it with the butter. Add the vanilla and powdered sugar and beat to incorporate.

I used a round tip on these when frosting, because I think a star tip would have somehow made them less fun. I pondered the idea of taking the torch to them and toasting them, but because i wasn't sure how that would hold up overnight to take the office the next day, I decided not to. I topped the cupcakes with crudely chopped pieces of Hershey's almond bars, I liked the appearance more than the nice little squares of chocolate.

They were amazing.