Chocolate Cupcake recipe: http://www.bakeaholic.ca/cupcakes/dark-chocolate-cupcakes/ (I reduced sugar to 3/4 cup because I knew the frosting would be very sweet)
Browned Butter Frosting recipe: (from colleague: 1/2 cup butter, 4 cups powdered sugar, 2 TB milk, 1 tsp vanilla. Brown the butter in a small saucepan, remove from heat and pour into mixing bowl, add the remaining ingredients and whip it up with a mixer until you reach desired consistency, adding more milk as needed. I added a total of 3.5TB milk)
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