Rich Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Frosting

Fragrant, tender, very tasty! For any occasion. Chocolate cupcakes with cream are quite dense, but crumbly. They turn out very aromatic with a rich chocolate taste. You don’t have to make cream, and without it the cupcakes turn out very tasty, but with cream they look more festive.
cook time: 35 min
Ava Prescott
Rich Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Frosting

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

419
Calories
27g
Fat
40g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (15 portions)

For dough:

Sugar 140 g
Wheat flour 130 g
Butter 100 g
Cocoa 50 g
Eggs 2 pc
Sour cream 100 g
Baking powder 1 tsp
Dark chocolate 60 g

For cream:

Butter 80 g
Powdered sugar 80 g
Dark chocolate 80 g
Cream cheese 50 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make chocolate cupcakes with cream? Prepare the necessary ingredients for the dough. Sour cream can be replaced with kefir or natural yogurt. I used a mixture of sour cream and kefir. If desired, you can also add vanilla or coffee liqueur. Turn the oven on 180 degrees.

Step 2

Step 2
Break the chocolate into pieces, add the diced butter and melt everything in the microwave or in a water bath. I melted it in the microwave.

Step 3

Step 3
Leave the melted chocolate-butter mixture for about 5 minutes to cool slightly.

Step 4

Step 4
Add sugar and mix everything thoroughly so that the sugar crystals dissolve.

Step 5

Step 5
Add eggs and mix again.

Step 6

Step 6
Add sour cream (kefir, yogurt) and stir until smooth.

Step 7

Step 7
Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder and mix into the dough in two additions.

Step 8

Step 8
The dough should be quite thick.

Step 9

Step 9
Pour the dough into the molds and bake in an oven preheated to 180 C for about 25-30 minutes. You can check readiness with a toothpick: insert it into the middle of the cupcake and immediately remove it. If the toothpick comes out dry, the cupcakes are ready. Remove the finished muffins from the oven and let them cool. If desired, you can simply sprinkle them with powdered sugar, but I decorated them with cream.

Step 10

Step 10
Prepare the necessary ingredients for the cream. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance to soften it. You can choose any chocolate to your taste. I used dark. The amount of powdered sugar can be adjusted to your taste.

Step 11

Step 11
Melt the chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave. Beat softened butter with a mixer with cream cheese until fluffy.

Step 12

Step 12
Add powdered sugar. In general, this is a ready-made cream, but vanilla, you can add 1 tsp to it. vanilla liqueur and decorate cupcakes with it, but I wanted chocolate cream.

Step 13

Step 13
Pour melted and cooled chocolate into the cream.

Step 14

Step 14
Using a mixer, stir the chocolate into the cream. Place the cream in a pastry bag and decorate the cupcakes with it.

Step 15

Step 15
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream are ready. Bon appetit!

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