Chocolate Christmas Cupcakes
These Chocolate Christmas Cupcakes are great for your next Christmas party or family gathering. Made with ingredients you probably already have in your cupboards, topped with a Chocolate Buttercream Icing and festive sprinkles you will love making these for all your family and friends.
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup buttermilk room temperature
Frosting:
- 1 ¼ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup Christmas sprinkles
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a muffin tin with cupcake liners and set aside.
- Whisk together all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl. Once whisked together set aside.
- In a seperte mixing bowl mix eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract until combined.
- Slowly add in about half of your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients along with about half of your buttermilk. Mix together then add in the other half of the wet and buttermilk. Mix until just combined being careful not to overmix.
- Fill each cupcake liner in your prepared cupcake pan about half way but no more then ¾. Overfull cupcakes will spill over the sides. If you need grab another cupcake pan and and cook 2-4 more extra cupcakes in that one.
- Place in the oven to bake for 18-20 minutes or until cupcakes are cooked through and you could place a toothpick in the center and it would come out soon.
- Allow cupcakes to cool slightly then remove them from the pan to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting:
- To prepare your cream together softened butter and melted chocolate with an electric hand mixer until creamy.
- Add unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 cup powdered sugar, and 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream. Mix until well combined. Then add another 1 cup of powdered sugar and another 1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream. Mix and repeat until all powdered sugar and heavy whipping cream have been mixed into your frosting.
- Last add vanilla extract and mix until your frosting is combined.
- Place frosting into a piping bag and frost cupcakes once they have cooled.
- Add Christmas sprinkles to the top of each cupcake and serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 740kcalCarbohydrates: 94gProtein: 5gFat: 40gSaturated Fat: 26gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 89mgSodium: 102mgPotassium: 304mgFiber: 4gSugar: 80gVitamin A: 753IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 65mgIron: 3mg
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