Devil’s Food Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup hot water
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/4 tsp coarse salt
• 3 sticks unsalted butter
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tbsp and 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together cocoa and hot water in a bowl until there are no cocoa chunks in it. In a separate bowl, mix together the baking soda and baking powder, the coarse salt, and the all-purpose flour.
2. Put a saucepan on the stove on medium/simmering heat, and add the butter and the sugar and let it melt. Continuously mix it until it is completely melted. Turn the stove off, and mix it with a electric mixer until it cools off.

Hostess is a 85-year old brand with lots of advantages that other big companies don’t have. It is going out of business because it has failed to give its workers higher wages. They are firing about 19,000 employees, and it will result in even the most simple pantry staples disappearing. It will make kids’ snacks disappear, and most kids rely on these snacks for bedtime, lunches, and of course, snacks. It is closing because they do not have enough profit to give all of their employees a decent wage, and make snacks at the same time.

This is important to me because there are roughly 308,745,538 people in the United States, so many very unfortunate people have lost their jobs. Although there is still a lot of people left who have a job, most of the population is at a loss of jobs.

Information:
http://www.hostessbrands.com/Closed.aspx
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/index.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/hostess-maker-twinkies-ding-dongs-says-closing-business-1C7112898
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578122632560842670.html
 http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/11/21/hostess-closing-doesnt-spell-end-for-bakers-union/