How To Eat A Cupcake often inspires me. In her recent post about making Martha Stewart’s one-bowl chocolate cupcakes, she raved about how “INSANELY good” they are; with this sort of review, I just couldn’t resist trying these one-bowl chocolate cupcakes for myself.
Now, remember that I had leftover cream cheese filling from those banana whoopie pies (How To Eat A Cupcake coincidentally posted a whoopie pie post just shortly after mine!) and I mentioned that I’d like to use it as filling in chocolate cupcakes. I planned to do this, and decided to mix mini chocolate chips in with the cream cheese filling and use chocolate buttercream for the frosting.
They were indeed very good! Great chocolate cupcakes, and so easy to make! I love how dark they are too.
My 3-year-old daughter and her dinosaurs helped make the frosting with me…
Veloca Raptor climbs out of the bowl, having finished up the last of the frosting!
Recipes:
Cream Cheese Filling
Ingredients
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
mini chocolate chipsMethod
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add confectioners’ sugar and vanilla, mixing until smooth and creamy. Mix in enough mini chocolate chips to suit your taste. Fill cupcakes when they are completely cooled. This filling is best used with the cone method for filling the cupcakes.
Wow! These look super moist and dark! Yum! So, were they “insanely” good? I’ve been wanting to try that same recipe myself. Love your blog by the way. :)
Yes, they were very moist and I loved how dark they turned out. I had so much filling in mine that I never got a plain bite of chocolate cupcake, but I will be baking this recipe again with no filling soon. I’d also like to try the recipe with brewed coffee instead of the water – a mocha cupcake! I’m pretty sure that would work and taste great! :)
Awesome idea. I look forward to that post for sure.
What did you think of the Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting? I’ve seen that recipe before, but haven’t tried it. Or, what is your favorite chocolate frosting recipe?
Dawn, the Hershey’s frosting is very nice, very chocolatey and I will definitely use it in the future (I have used it once in the past for a chili chocolate cupcake – see my Iron Cupcake: Chili post for that). What I like most about it is that it’s a darker color frosting.
I’d have to say that my favorite chocolate frosting would be the one I found at Cupcakes Take The Cake.
I’m glad you liked them!
Cute dino!