
How To Make Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
Cupcakes are more fun when they have a surprise filling inside. In this chocolate cupcakes recipe, they’re filled with sweet cream for a decadent treat!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2½cupsall purpose flour
- 2cupswhite sugar
- â…“cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 1tspbaking powder
- ¼tspsalt
- 1cupvegetable oil
- 1cupbuttermilk
- 2eggs
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 2tspbaking soda
- 1cuphot water
- â…”cupshortening
- ½cupwhite sugar
- â…“cupmilk
- 1tbspwater
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ¼tspsalt
- ½cupconfectioner’s sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 12-cup muffin tins.
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Sift the flour, 2 cups of white sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl.
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Beat the vegetable oil, buttermilk, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract into the flour mixture using an electric hand mixer on medium for about 3 minutes, until smooth.
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Stir the baking soda and hot water together in a small bowl, then mix into the batter. Pour batter into muffin cups to â…” full.
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Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
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Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
Cream Filling:
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Beat the shortening, ½ cup of white sugar, milk, 1 tablespoon of water, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl using an electric hand mixer for 5 to 7 minutes until smooth.
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Add the confectioners’ sugar, then beat for 3 to 5 minutes until fully incorporated.
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Insert the frosting into the cupcakes using a pastry tube fitted with a rosette tip. Frost the tops of cupcakes with remaining frosting.
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Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 285.70kcal
- Fat:Â 15.86g
- Saturated Fat:Â 2.38g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.82g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 9.31g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 3.33g
- Carbohydrates:Â 34.72g
- Fiber:Â 0.79g
- Sugar:Â 24.01g
- Protein:Â 2.47g
- Cholesterol:Â 14.08mg
- Sodium:Â 188.77mg
- Calcium:Â 35.94mg
- Potassium:Â 57.97mg
- Iron:Â 0.88mg
- Vitamin A: 8.72µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.10mg
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