"The Cake"

I absolutely can't give you the exact recipe... it's a trade secret :-)

BUT I'll say this. It was originally a cake, not cupcakes, and it's a Sour Cream Bundt cake with a Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon Swirl in the middle.

I usually serve it with Vanilla Haagen Dazs, but for the case of the cupcake, this is Cream Cheese Icing (so artfully flavored with dark chocolate cocoa powder, which turned it that LOVELY shade of Gray, and invoked the plethora of Steel Magnolia quotes I'm sure are to come.)

Cream Cheese Icing is:
Cream Cheese
Softened Butter
Powdered Sugar
Vanilla

Beaten together. Yum.