Marble Cupcakes with Marble Cream Cheese Frosting

Do you ever have a debate at your house about which is better, chocolate or vanilla?

To my little man, chocolate is best all around. Everything has to be chocolate. Chocolate is just the best thing in the world to him and nothing else compares. If it has chocolate in it, he will eat it. (Hmm, I should spread some chocolate on broccoli  and steak and I’m sure he’d eat it.)

To me, I can be in a mood for either vanilla or chocolate and I like to try just about any other flavor. Really, I just don’t discriminate between cupcakes. How can you? They are cupcakes! (Although, if there is licorice anywhere near them, that’s the one flavor I would have to decline.)

I guess trying new things comes with age though. I didn’t even start willingly eating veggies until I was a teenager. Kids are so picky and toddlers have their own rules altogether. For mine it’s “if it has chocolate, I will eat it!”

Ingredients
Cupcakes:

• 4 egg whites room temperature
• 1 cup of white granulated sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup of buttermilk
• 1/3 cup unseweet cocoa powder

• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• Frosting:
• 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
• 1 1/2 cup powder sugar
• 1/2 cup of butter room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate melted

Instructions
Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
2. Sift flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder together and set aside.
3. Make sure your other ingredients are ready.
4. In a bowl of an electric mixer, beat egg whites for a few seconds and slowly start pouring in sugar. Beat for 3-4 minutes, until white and fluffy.
5. Start pouring in oil slowly as the eggs are still beating.
6. Add vanilla and lower the speed to low.
7. .....................................

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