Chocolate mint cupcakes

I just made French toast cupcakes yesterday but to more is jimmys birthday sooooo I needed to bake more cupcakes, new cupcakes... Some,thing different. A look through my cabinets and a little cupcake wars inspiration and I decided on tiramisu which I don't have all the ingredients so, oddly I decided on an Andes mint inspired cupcake. Random story, I know. 

Chocolate mint cupcake 

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour
7 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, at room temperature
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup boiling water

Directions:

Add all dry ingredients into mixer and combine well. In a separate bowl combine all wet ingredients except for the water, mix well. Pour wet ingredients into dry and beat for three minutes. Add boiling water and combine. Add 2 tablespoons of flour and teaspoon of sugar, mix. Pour into a prepared cupcake tin with liners. Bake at 350 for 23 minutes. Cool and then frost.

Frosting

One stick of room temperature butter, 

One to two cups of powdered sugar

One teaspoon vanilla extract

One teaspoon peppermint extract

2 tablespoons water