Chocolate Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes

Double Birthday! Recipe comes from The Big Book of Cupcakes: 150 Brilliantly Delicious Dreamcakes

Ingredients:

• Cupcake
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups superfine sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 3/4 cups all-flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 16 oz powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup whipping cream
• Bar of chocolate

Directions:

1) Combine cocoa and 2 cups boiling water in a large heatproof bowl, stirring until blended and smooth.
2) Let cool.
3) Preheat the oven to 350F/176C






4) Beat butter with a mixer until creamy.









5) Add sugar slowly, beating until blended.








6) Add eggs, one at a time, beating until blended after each addition.








7) Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.









8) Add to butter mixture alternating with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
9) Stir in vanilla extract.

 10) Place paper baking cups in cupcake pans and coat with cooking spray.









11) Spoon batter into cups, about 3-4 spoonfuls each.
12) Bake for 12-15 minutes.

13) To make the frosting, mix the cream cheese, butter, vanilla and salt until creamy.







14) Combine powdered sugar and cocoa.
15) Add to the cream cheese mixture alternately with cream, beginning and ending with powdered sugar mixture.
16) Beat at high speed 2 minutes or until creamy.







17) Poke a hole in the top of the cupcakes.
18) Fill the cupcake with the frosting and then frost the top.






19) Microwave the chocolate bar for 20 seconds.
20) Use a vegetable peeler to make curls.
21) Place on top of the cupcakes.

 Special Birthday Cupcakes

 

Strawberry and Lemon Cupcakes

It was summer-ish today (i.e. the sun came out for 4 hours) and that made me want to make summer-y cupcakes!

Taken from here and modified.

Ingredients:

• Cupcakes
• 2 cups cake flour
• 2 cups all-purpose flour minus 4 TBSP
• 4 TBSP corn starch
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• zest of 1 lemon
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup milk
• Frosting
• 4 oz strawberries
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

1) Combine flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.









2) Combine cream cheese, butter, sugar, lemon zest and juice and vanilla.








3) Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
4) Add the oil.







5) Add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with 2 batches of the milk.








6) Fill the cupcake liners with 1/2 to 2/3 full.
7) Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
8) Cool completely before frosting.






9) To make the frosting, puree the strawberries with either a blender or food processor, cutting before.
10) Add the sugar and put over medium heat.
11) Reduce until the sauce can cover the back of the spoon.
12) Remove and let cool.





13) Add the rest of the ingredients.

Lemon, Coconut and, Blueberries Cupcakes

 National Bake Week! and it's Easter soon and I got cute cupcake wrappers and things to stick in the cupcakes.

Take from here

Ingredients:

• Cupcakes
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 cup vanilla yoghurt
• 3 TBSP lemon juice and zest
• 1 1/2 cup cake flour
• 1 cup - 2 TBSP all purpose flour + 2 TBSP corn starch
• 1/2 cup sweetened coconut
• 1 TBSP baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1 cup of blueberries
• Frosting
• 1/2 cup butter, room temp
• 1/2 cup cream cheese, room temp
• 2 tsp grated lemon peel
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

1) Preheat the oven to 350F/176C.

2) Line muffin tins with cupcakes liners.

3) Mix eggs and sugar in a large bowl.

 

4) Add olive oil, yoghurt, lemon juice and zest and mix.

5) Add in cake flour, coconut, baking powder and salt and mix.

 

6) Add blueberries and mix.

 

7) Fill cupcake liners 2/3 of the way full.

8) Bake for 20 minutes.

9) Let cool before icing.

 

10) Mix butter, cream cheese, grated peel and vanilla.

 

11) Add in powdered sugar and mix.

12) Spread over the cupcake.

Oreo and Peanut Butter Cakes AND Peanut M&M Cakes

Top two layers: Oreo and Peanut Butter Cakes
Bottom layer and extra one: Peanut M&M Cakes
Frosting: unnecessary because of everything in them!
Recipe from here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Oreo-and-Peanut-Butter-Brownie-Cakes/
Thanks Dani!

Ingredients:

• 1 package cake mix (I used Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix)
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs
• 12 Oreos, one for each cake (all my box had)
• 6 tsp Peanut Butter
• 26 Peanut M&Ms, three for each cake

Directions:

1) Preheat the oven to 350F/176C.
2) Line the cupcake tin with wrappers.
3) Place one Oreo in each.








4) Add 1/2 tsp to the top of each Oreo.








5) Make the cake batter.









6) Add the cake batter to the top of the Oreos.
7) Bake for about 20 minutes.







8) For the Peanut M&Ms, add 3 in the middle of the batter (in the picture, the bottom three I topped off and am about to do the top three).