Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Frosting

Don’t you just love a good cupcake?  There’s just something about a cupcake that just fills me with a nostalgic excitement.

And when a cupcake is pretty – it just screams ‘Taste Me, you won’t be disappointed’ and I promise you these little beauties will taste as good as they look.

The best part of these cupcakes is the deep chocolate taste with just the right amount of sweetness.

These decadent cupcakes are perfectly chocolaty with a soft and moist crumb and that dark chocolate, cream cheese frosting – try not to eat it by the spoonful before you top the cupcakes!

I just swirled them from the middle out (see the video for how it’s done).  Nothing really fancy.  If you want to practice, you can just scrape it off and do it again until you get it the way you want.

Ingredients
For the cupcakes:

• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ cup light brown sugar packed
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 stick softened butter plus some for greasing
• ¾ cup sugar superfine or granulated
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoons salt
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs at room temperature
• For the frosting:
• ½ cup butter softened
• 4 ounces cream cheese softened
• 4 ounces Dark chocolate melted (see recipe notes)
• 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon salt optional (to cut sweetness)
• ½ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder sifted
• 1½ cups powdered sugar sifted
• Black gel food coloring optional (as needed)
• Cups - Metric

Instructions
For the cupcakes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F/180 C.
2. In a mixing bowl whisk together the cocoa powder, instant coffee, brown sugar, and hot water. Set aside.
3. ...............................................

for full instruction please see : www.errenskitchen.com

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