Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chocolate cupcakes with pomegranate cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Then frosted with delicious cream cheese buttercream - you'll be wondering why you didn't always put cream cheese frosting on your chocolate cupcakes. The filling is out-of-this world – the slight tang of the cream cheese contrasts so nicely with the rich chocolate of the cupcake and the chocolate chips make it extra special.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate cupcakes with pomegranate cream cheese frosting using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Make ready 1 FOR CUPCAKES
- Get 2 cup granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- Make ready 3/4 cup special dark hersheys cocoa
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Prepare 1/2 cup oil such as canola oil
- Get 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 cup boiling water
- Make ready 1 FOR POMEGRANATE FROSTING
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup pomegranate juice
- Make ready 4 oz butter at room temperature
- Prepare 8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
- Make ready 12 oz powdered sugar, about 4 cups
- Make ready 7 oz bag of chocolate covered pomegranat juice pieces I use a brand called brookside they are in the candy section of the grocery store
I jokingly referred to these as death by chocolate cupcakes because … So. But there's no such thing as too much chocolate for a chocolate lover! Perfectly moist homemade chocolate cupcakes, topped off with silky chocolate cream cheese frosting! Instant coffee intensifies the chocolate richness of these cupcakes.
Steps to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
- MAKE CUPCAKES
- Preheat oven to 350, line cupcake tins with paper liners, this makes 24 cupcakes
- In a large bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add eggs, milk oil and vanilla. Beat until combined. Stir in boiling water ( the batter will be very thin). Pour batter evenly into 24 paper lined cupcake tins. Bake 16 to 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.Cool on a rack
- FOROMEGRANATE FROSTING
- In a small saucepan, over medium heat reduce pomegranate juice by one half this will take awhile so I would advise doing this in advance or while the cupcakes are cooking.This must be cool before using in frosting.
- Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy.Slowly add powdered sugar and cooled pomegranate juice beat until smooth, you may not need all the sugar once you have a creamy fluffy frosting its done,
- Frost the cooled cupcakes with frosting top each cupcake with 3 chocolate covered pomegranate juice pieces, if you can not find them garnish with chocolate shavings
To repeat the Halloween theme, decorate them with plastic cake toppers, licorice, jelly beans, or candy sprinkles. Refrigerate frosted cupcakes overnight; cover lightly with plastic wrap, or store them in an airtight container. Best Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe: If you have my book, Surprise Inside Cakes, you know that my chocolate cake recipe uses sour cream. I am a big fan of Sour Cream Chocolate Cake and love that I was able to incorporate it into cupcakes. I also love how thick it makes the batter; you can scoop it with an ice cream scoop and every single cupcake will be perfectly proportioned.
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