Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

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Perfect light & fluffy chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. The rich chocolate taste of these cupcakes pairs so deliciously with the Then frosted with delicious cream cheese buttercream - you'll be wondering why you didn't always put cream cheese frosting on your chocolate cupcakes. Today I'm going to show you how to make these deliciously moist chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!

Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. Get Dark chocolate cupcake:
  2. Make ready 3 cups all purpose flour
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  5. Get 2 tsp baking soda
  6. Get 1 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 2 cups warm coffee (freshly brewed)
  8. Get 2 Tbsp white vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
  9. Prepare 4 tsp vanilla extract
  10. Make ready 2/3 cup pure olive oil (or canola oil)
  11. Take Frosting:
  12. Take 8 oz (1 package) cream cheese, softened at room temperature
  13. Take 1/2 cup butter, softened at room temperature
  14. Make ready 2 cups powdered sugar
  15. Make ready 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  16. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  17. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract

This recipe is simple, fool-proof, and richly chocolaty. How is it that I've never shared a chocolate cupcake recipe with chocolate buttercream frosting before?? Okay, I've shared lots of chocolate cupcakes with different kinds of frosting, but who doesn't love this classic combination — chocolate. This chocolate cream cheese frosting is smooth, creamy, slightly tangy, and so chocolaty.

Steps to make Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. To make the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners. Brew your coffee; you can brew instant coffee with 2 cups of hot water (or mix 6 espresso shots with enough hot water equal to 2 cups of liquid)
  2. In a large bowl whisk together 3 cups flour, 1/2 cup cocoa powder, 1-1/2 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp salt.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix together 2 cups coffee, 2 Tbsp vinegar, 4 tsp vanilla extract and 2/3 cup pure olive oil.
  4. Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until they come together
  5. Use an ice cream scoop to pour batter into your lined cupcake pan; They should be about 2/3 full. Bake 18-20 minutes on the center rack or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in the pan 5 minutes and remove to cool on a rack.
  6. To make the frosting: In the bowl of an electric mixer using paddle attachment (or using an electric hand mixer with a large bowl), beat together 8 oz cream cheese with 1/2 cup butter on medium/high speed until creamy (3 min), scraping down the bowl as needed.
  7. Sift in 2 cups powdered sugar with 1/2 cup cocoa powder to ensure there are no lumps then add 1/4 tsp salt. Mix on low speed until well combined, scrape down the bowl well then increase to medium/high speed and beat until smooth and whipped (1 min).
    1. Add 1 tsp vanilla and beat on medium/high until smooth (1 min). Now it’s ready to be piped onto cooled cupcakes.

It works perfectly on almost any cupcake or cake! The USDA considers frostings made with cream cheese to be unsafe if left unrefrigerated for more than a couple of hours, and there are a lot of food websites. Vanilla Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Chocolate Frosting. By Jennifer Segal, cake portion adapted from Magnolia.

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