Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

I love Gordon Ramsay, and although his new show Master Chef is terrible, I watch it because he is in it. Yesterday, after watching the cupcake challenge episode, I felt inspired to comb through my cupcake books and try a new recipe. (It also helps to know that I am currently on a 5-day Labor Day weekend and can finally get to some of the items on my fun to-do list.)

I found a recipe in one of my books for After Eight cupcakes which have a very dense, but not super sweet chocolate cake with a mint butter cream frosting. 

I am not sure if I think the color of the frosting makes it more or less appetizing. I think that perhaps I put too much frosting on my cupcakes because I always have to scrape the bowl for the last one. Cupcake recipes never have the correct cake to frosting ratio in my opinion.