Recipe: Creamy Center Cupcakes

SERVINGS: 24
CATEGORY: Dessert
METHOD: Baked
TIME: Prep: 45 min. + cooling
Ingredients:
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) devil's food cake mix
3/4 cup shortening
2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1 cup marshmallow creme
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cans (16 ounces each) chocolate frosting

Directions:
Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for cupcakes, using paper-lined muffin cups. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Meanwhile in a large mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add marshmallow creme and vanilla; mix well.
Insert a very small pastry tip into a pastry or plastic bag; fill with cream
filling. Insert tip halfway into the center of each cupcake and fill with a small amount. Frost with chocolate frosting. Yield: 2 dozen.