Chocolate Beehive and Rose Flower Cupcakes

These luscious chocolate beehive and rose flower cupcakes are definitely the bee’s knees.  If I had to choose one favorite cupcake, it would be these delicious chocolate beehive cupcakes.  They were as much fun to make as they were to eat.  I first planned to make all beehive cupcakes, and then later decided I needed flowers to go with the bees.  So I set aside a few of the cupcakes to pipe flowers on.  The flower cupcakes were pretty good too, topped with a coffee-flavored buttercream.       I first had a taste of beehive treats in a bakery called Chez Nous, a shop near the university I attended.  …

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