These cupcakes are the perfect everyday chocolate cupcake. Moist, tender, with a nice poofy top. They can be whipped up in a blender, or with a whisk in a bowl (which is how I made them). The buttercream is a solid performer. Yes, it’s got Marshmallow Fluff in it. But it’s good, it’s fast, and it’s stable. It pipes out beautifully. And it doesn’t taste at all like marshmallow.

I threw these together just before our dinner guest arrived last night, and sent him home with some. Find the recipe on Abby Dodge’s site here.

• Emergency Chocolate Cupcakes & Shortcut Marshmallow-Butter Cream Frosting (Abby Dodge)