Learn how to make these homemade dark chocolate cupcakes from scratch! They’re incredibly moist, rich, and decadent, almost like a cross between fudgy brownies and cupcakes, and they’re really easy to make.Plus they have no refined flour or sugar and just 97 calories, including the chocolate frosting!     For many years during my childhood, we hosted my birthday party at one of the smaller pools in town.We invited a few of my classmates and our family friends, and we tied colorful balloons and spread out plastic tablecloths on a couple of the wooden picnic tables scattered around the pool.

  My little friends and I spent as much time in the water as we could: playing Marco Polo, diving for plastic rings on the pool’s floor, and doing cannonballs off of the edge to see who could make the biggest splash.Yet when the lifeguards blew their whistles to signal the start of the 15-minute adult swim, we didn’t mind quite as much as usual… Since that meant snack time—and Mom let us eat special snacks at my birthday party! Instead of our standard graham crackers, peanut butter, and apple slices, she let me pick out crunchy pretzel rods, potato chips, and a couple of different types of candy to share with my friends, and we always looked forward to those with giddy excitement.    Then towards the end of the afternoon, when the lifeguards blew their whistles yet again, we eagerly clambered onto the picnic table benches for birthday cake.

It came in a big pink

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