Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Original Day Family cookbook

Ingredients:

• • ½ cup soft butter

  • 6 tablespoons sugar

  • 6 tablespoons light brown sugar

  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

  • 1 egg

  • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour

  • ½ teaspoon baking soda

  • ½ teaspoon salt

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. Beat in an egg. Sift and add flour, baking soda, and sale. Spoon by rounded tablespoons into paper-lined muffin tins (16). Bake 375^o oven 10-12 mins. As soon as cupcakes come out of oven, spoon 1 tablespoon topping over each and return to oven. Bake 15 mins. longer. Remove at once from tins.

Topping:

Beat until thick:

• • ½ cup light brown sugar

  • 1 egg

  • Salt

Stir in:

• • 1 cup (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate bits

  • ½ cup coarsely chopped nuts

  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

Variations: