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

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. How to make chocolate cream cheese frosting!

Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

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

They are frosted with a chili-flavored cream cheese frosting, and each cupcake is decorated with a cute dried chili on top. The chocolate cream cheese frosting is also a Georgetown Cupcakes recipe from The Cupcake Diaries. I didn't sift the powdered sugar in this recipe either. I don't sift (unless absolutely necessary and it rarely is).

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's just the right amount of chocolate and sweet. If you find buttercream to be too sweet. 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. Vanilla Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.

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