These Devil's Food Cupcakes are rich chocolate cupcakes that are topped with sweet buttercream frosting piping in a Rosette or Rose pattern. They are great for Valenitne's Day.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 17 minutesminutes
Total Time 32 minutesminutes
Servings 18Cupcakes
Calories 265kcal
Equipment
mixing bowls
Electric mixer
cupcake tin
piping bags
1D frosting tip
1B frosting tip
Ingredients
½cupcocoa powder
2ounceschocolate chips
½cupboiling water
½cupbuttermilk
1cupcake flour
¾teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
⅔cupbrown sugar
½cupsugar
½cupoil
2eggs
1teaspoonvanilla
Ingredients for buttercream:
3cupspowdered sugar
½cupbuttersoftened
6tablespoonsheavy cream
1 ½teaspoonsvanilla
Red food coloringI prefer gel as it doesn’t water down frosting
Gold sugar beads
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a small bowl, place cocoa powder and chocolate chips and pour the boiling water over the top.
Whisk the chocolate until smooth. Add in the buttermilk and whisk. Set it aside.
In a large bowl, beat the brown sugar, white sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla for about 2 minutes.
In a small bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt.
Add about ⅓ of the flour to the sugar mixture and stir.
Add in about ½ the chocolate mixture and stir.
Repeat with the flour and chocolate mixes, adding them alternately until the batter is thoroughly combined.
Scoop into a lined cupcake tray until the cups are about halfway filled. Place in the oven and bake for 18 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Remove and place on a cooling rack.
For the frosting, place the powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and about half of the heavy cream in a large bowl and beat until smooth.
Add in more heavy cream and continue to beat until the frosting is smooth and creamy.
Scoop part of the frosting into a bag with the 1D frosting tip and set aside.
Add red food coloring to the remaining frosting to reach desired color.
Place into a frosting bag with the 1B tip. Swirl the piped frosting into a circular pattern on cooled cupcakes and decorate with gold sugar beads.
Notes
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.