Cupcakes with the neighbor girls

I made these cupcakes for the neighborhood girls to decorate. My neighbor across the street made the frosting and directed the decorating. We had fun. These are the best chocolate cupcakes! I started with a Cook's Illustrated recipe for Chocolate Devil's Food Cake, but swapped the all-purpose flour for whole grain kamut flour resulting in a whole grain product that maintains the light fluffy texture associated with white flour cakes. Kamut is great because it doesn't give baked goods the dense, heaviness of whole wheat. Also, the flavor of kamut is more delicate, so it doesn't detract from the other flavors in the cake the way whole wheat would, but you don't have to sacrifice any of the nutritious goodness attributed only to a whole grain. Kamut can also be used in pancakes with wonderful success. In fact we like the kamut pancakes better than the original white wheat flour version.