Easter cupcake strife!

 Every time I ask anyone what they want me to bake the answer is cupcakes.  I have really come to hate making them for other people.  Baking a batch for just me and the husband is fine because if they don't quite look right it doesn't matter as we're just going to shove them in our mouths anyway.  But other people expect cupcakes to look good and frankly mine don't.  Whether it's a lack of skill, patience or creative talent I don't know but they never seem to sing.  Feelings of dislike have been awakened this weekend as I was asked by my mother in law to make some for my brother in law's new girlfriend's birthday.  Being Easter weekend they had to have a seasonal theme so I turned Jamie Oliver's Velvet Cupcake recipe into an Easter cupcake nest type thing.  It was all going well as the cakes went in the oven, the mixture was really smooth and velvety and really easy to work with.  I wasn't boosted with confidence because things always go well with the cake itself.  The problem is in the decoration, they looked really good in my head but didn't quite turn out that way.  For topping the cupcakes I used a chocolate frosting recipe I've had written down on a piece of paper for ages and I can't remember where it came from. It calls for melting chocolate with milk and butter and then beating in icing sugar. It's really tasty but quite temperamental.  First it was lumpy and required quite strenuous whisking (not by me, these jobs are the domain of the husband) and then the consistency wasn't quite right so it started running all down the sides of the cake which is never a good look.  After leaving the frosting for ages so that it started to set, it sort of redeemed itself and went on the cupcakes without dribbling everywhere.  They're not all pretty though.  The husband isn't too upset as the ones with the dribbly icing have been designated as not passing quality control and he gets them all to himself.  With some careful positioning, I managed to make one of them look photogenic:

Happy Easter!