Meetings Meetings meetings!!

So in my job it's all about the meetings. I will sometimes have 10 or more meetings in a week. Which has been my last three weeks in a row (whew! I'm exhausted). There are even times in my life that I have meetings to prepare for meetings, about meetings. No really. I do. I'm not just making that up to sound silly.

I've decided my meeting rich life needed something to make these meetings a little less...yicky. And what better way to yum up a boring old meeting than a cupcake?!

One of my friends/coworkers said she wanted chocolate, and I really wanted a coffee something. So I did a chocolate cupcake with espresso frosting and a chocolate covered espresso bean on top. Holy Moly were they good!! I  would have eaten all 24, but I would have been up for a week straight and had a tummy ache. We're not talking about the calories involved.

Actually my friends and  I have this running joke about calories: If you break open food before you eat it, all the calories fall out. So that cupcake? Cut it in half and the calories just fall onto the plate! Those chips? Just open the bag and out those pesky little suckers fall. If only that were true.... sigh!

So for the frosting I simply added a few teaspoons of instant coffee and a pinch of salt to my butter cream. Yes the salt really is important. It cuts the bitterness of the coffee. Bitter frosting? No thank you.

Really so easy.