Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Greetings.

Sorry if this is a late posting, I've been really busy and I usually upload on Sunday, but I did these late Monday night. I've had a very busy week and I apologize for not posting sooner. Last week I made Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes. I had to make two batches, because a mix up in the ingredients. I brought these into school, and everybody loved them! This recipe calls for the basic cake mix (see previous post.)
For the Mix:

• Instead of 1 tsp. of vanilla extract it calls for peppermint extract
• 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips

For the Sauce:

• 3 1/2 oz of semisweet chocolate, melted (I used dark)
• 10 mint chocolate sticks broken into short lengths (I couldn't find them, so I used Andes)

This recipe comes from the book: 1 Mix, 100 Cakes by, Christine France  I do not own the publishing copyrights to this book. This recipe was very delicious, but it is not correct. It says it serves 32, but it really only serves 24, so if you make this recipe it will only make 2 dozen. I set the oven to 350, put the cupcake liners in the muffin pan and set to work on the mixing. I made the basic cake mix, except substituting the vanilla extract for peppermint extract. After mixing with my mixer I stirred the chocolate chips and set to work filling the liners. I assumed they would rise a lot, so I filled them about 1/5 of the way up, so each cupcake had an equal amount of batter. I put them in the oven and started the timer for 15 minutes. While they were baking I melted the chocolate in a heavily buttered pan. When I took them out I realized A) Some were very small and B) The ones I put on the bottom rack the bottoms burned :(. I picked out the reasonable sized ones and dribbled the chocolate on them and then finished each one off with an Andes. I had to throw out the burned ones and the small ones I kept for my family. I made another batch and they turned out perfectly. (However, I only filled 24 cupcake liners.) Thanks for reading, everybody!

My [very bad] photo of a cupcake.