How To Make Mexican Chocolate Cupcakes
Cap off meals with a mouthful bite of these Mexican chocolate cupcakes! It’s a cinnamon-spiced chocolate treat, topped with chocolate buttercream frosting.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupwhite sugar
- ½cupbrown sugar
- ¼cupbutter,room temperature
- 1egg
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 1⅓cupsall purpose flour
- ⅔cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 1½tspbaking powder
- ½tspinstant coffee granules
- ¼tspsalt
- ¼tspbaking soda
- ¼tspground cinnamon
- 1cupmilk
For Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
- 1cupbutter,softened
- 5cupsconfectioner’s sugar
- 2tbspmilk
- ½cupunsweetened cocoa powder
- 1tspvanilla extract
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
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Beat the white sugar, brown sugar, and butter together in the bowl of a stand mixer until thoroughly blended and creamy. Add the egg, then beat well. Mix in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
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Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, coffee, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in a second bowl. Blend with a whisk until fluffy and no clumps appear.
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Alternate adding the flour mixture and milk into the butter mixture, mixing until just combined. Fill the muffin cups ⅔-full of batter.
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Bake in the oven for 15 to 17 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Move to a wire rack to cool completely for at least 25 minutes.
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:
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Beat the butter in the bowl of the stand mixer; add confectioners’ sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating until creamy. Add the milk, then mix until frosting is creamy. Mix in the cocoa powder and vanilla extract.
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Fit a piping bag with a coupler and tip. Drop the piping bag into a tall glass and fold edges down around the glass. Spoon frosting into the bag. Gather edges and twist together.
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Pipe frosting onto the cupcakes, then serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 510.51kcal
- Fat: 21.54g
- Saturated Fat: 13.38g
- Trans Fat: 0.78g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.68g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.93g
- Carbohydrates: 81.02g
- Fiber: 3.50g
- Sugar: 64.54g
- Protein: 4.46g
- Cholesterol: 66.45mg
- Sodium: 142.45mg
- Calcium: 94.92mg
- Potassium: 195.03mg
- Iron: 2.03mg
- Vitamin A: 177.98µg
- Vitamin C: 0.00mg
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