Feathery Fudge Cupcakes Recipes

CHOCOLATE FUDGE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners. In the top of a double boiler, combine chocolate and butter. Heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm.
• Sift flour and sugar together into a large bowl. With mixer on low speed, beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in chocolate mixture, vanilla and pecans. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Do not overbake. Tops should be shiny but give slightly when touched.

CHOCOLATE CREAM-FILLED CUPCAKES WITH FUDGE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat 30 cupcake cups with butter and flour.
• Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Beat milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together in another large bowl; slowly add dry ingredients and mix well.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each about 1/2 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, 15 to 17 minutes. Take cupcakes out of tins and let cool completely, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine confectioners' sugar, butter, shortening, milk, vanilla extract, and salt for filling together in a bowl; beat until well whipped. Reserve about 1 1/2 cups of filling mixture for decorating cupcakes. Add marshmallow creme to the rest of the filling. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a long, thin tip with the marshmallow mixture. Pipe into cooled cupcakes; let cream settle.
• Mix confectioners' sugar, cocoa, butter, evaporated milk, and vanilla extract together for icing in a bowl until creamy. Mix in chocolate chips and corn syrup. Transfer to a microwave-safe bowl and microwave mixture on high for 30 seconds. Stir and repeat process until smooth.
• Dip the tops of the cupcakes into the fudge icing and set aside to dry.
• While icing is drying, place reserved filling for decorating into another pastry bag fitted with a writing tip. Decorate cupcakes as desired.

FUDGE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, rack in the middle position.
• Line a 12-cup muffin pan with double cupcake papers. This recipe makes 18 cupcakes, so you can add an additional 6-cup muffin pan or you can butter and flour an 8-inch square cake pan.
• Microwave the chocolate, raspberry syrup and 1/4 cup sugar in a microwave safe bowl on high for 1 minute. Stir. Microwave again for another minute. At this point, the chocolate will be almost melted, but will retain its shape. Stir the mixture until smooth and let cool to lukewarm.
• Measure flour, mix in baking powder and salt, and set aside. In an electric mixer beat the butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition to make sure they're thoroughly incorporated. Add approximately 1/3 of the flour mixture and 1/3 of the milk. When that's all mixed in, add another third of the flour and 1/3 of the milk. Once incorporated, add the remaining flour and milk. Mix thoroughly.
• Test your chocolate mixture to be sure it's cool enough to add (don't cook the eggs!). If it's fairly warm to the touch but not so hot you have to pull your hand away, you can add it. Stir thoroughly.
• LET THE BATTER REST FOR 5 MINUTES. Then stir it again by hand and fill each cupcake paper 3/4 full. (If you decide to use the cake pan, fill it as well.).
• Bake the cupcakes for 20-25 minutes. (The 8-inch cake pan should bake an additional 5 minutes.).
• Frosting:.
• You can use a double boiler, or a saucepan on the stovetop, stirring CONSTANTLY.
• Put the chocolate chips in the pan/boiler over medium heat. Stir until chocolate chips are melted. Stir in sweetened condensed milk and cook approximately 2 minutes, stirring constantly until the frosting is shiny and of spreading consistency.
• Spread on cupcakes, make sure to fill the "frosting pocket.".
• Give the frosting pan to your favorite person to scrape.
• (The cupcakes are better if you cool and cover them for a few hours before frosting them.).

FEATHERY FUDGE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees for silver pans or 325 degrees for black pans (if hotter temps. are used with black pans dessert will taste overcooked). Place cupcake liners in cupcake pans. Melt the chocolate squares in the microwave and set aside to cool. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt (medium sized bowl). In a seperate bowl (large size), beat the margarine till light and fluffy. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat together. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well. Stir in the cooled chocolate. Then, add the dry ingredients and water alternately to the chocolate mixture beating after each addition. Scoop the batter into the liners.
• Cook silver cupcake pans for 23-25 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Cook darker pans for 20 minutes at 325 degrees.
• To check to see if cake is done, insert a toothpick into the middle. The toothpick should come out clean. Remove the finished cupcakes from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Then, place them on wire racks to cool. Once cooled (completely or frosting will melt), eat plain or frost with your favorite buttercream or other frosting.
• Buttercream frosting can be made easily by starting with mostly confectioners sugar and adding 1-2 sticks of margarine or butter, a teaspoon of vanilla, and by slowly adding milk till mixture reaches consistency for piping or spreading. Once frosting is done to the taste and texture, food coloring (paste) can be added to color it.

WELLESLEY FUDGE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Make the cupcakes:
• Preheat the oven to 375°F. In a metal bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water melt the chocolate with the water, stirring, until the mixture is smooth and remove the bowl from the heat. In a bowl whisk the butter with the brown sugar until the mixture is blended well and whisk in the yolk and the chocolate mixture. Onto a sheet of wax paper sift together the flour, the baking powder, and the salt and add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture in batches alternately with the milk, stirring well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla, divide the batter among 6 paper-lined 1/2-cup muffin tins, and bake the cupcakes in the middle of the oven for 18 to 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Transfer the cupcakes to a rack and let them cool.
• Make the frosting while the cupcakes are baking:
• In a metal bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water melt the chocolate with the butter, stirring, until the mixture is smooth and remove the bowl from the heat. Stir in the confectioners' sugar, 2 teaspoons of the milk, and the vanilla and blend the frosting well (the frosting will thicken as it stands). When the cupcakes are cool, thin the frosting to the desired consistency with the additional milk, stirring in the milk drop by drop.
• Spread each cupcake with some of the frosting.

FUDGE BROWNIE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350°F.
• Line muffin tins with paper baking cups.
• Melt butter and chocolate over low heat in 1 quart saucepan; stir occasionally until chocolate is melted.
• Let cool for about 5 minutes.
• Stir chocolate mixture and other ingredients in large bowl; mix well.
• Fill each lined muffin cup with approximately 1/4 cup batter.
• Bake 23-27 minutes or until top springs up when slightly touched.
• Remove cupcakes let cool and most of all, ENJOY!

FUDGE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position.
• Line a 12-cup muffin pan with double cupcake papers. Since this recipe makes 18 cupcakes, you can use an additional 6-cup muffin pan lined with double papers.
• Microwave the chocolate, raspberry syrup and 1/4 cup sugar in microwave-safe bowl on high for 1 minute. Stir. Microwave again for another minute. At this point, the chocolate will be almost melted, but it will maintain it's shape. Stir the mixture until smooth and let cool to lukewarm. (You can also do this in a double boiler on the stove.).
• Measure flour, mix in baking powder and salt, and set aside. In an electric mixer (or with a VERY strong arm), beat the butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. (About 3 minutes with a mixer - an additional 2 minutes if you're doing it by hand.) Add eggs, one at a time, beating each addition to make sure they're throughly incorporated. Add approximately a third of the flour mix and a third of the milk. (You don't have to be exact - adding the flour and milk in increments makes the batter smoother.) When that's all mixed in, add another third of the flour and another third of the milk. When that's incorporated, add the remainder of the flour and the remainder of the milk. Mix throughly.
• Test your chocolate mixture to make sure it's cool enough to add. (You don't want to cook the eggs!) If it's fairly warm to the touch but not so hot you have to pull your hand away, you can add it at this point. Sitr throughly and you're done.
• Let the batter rest for five minutes. Then stir it again by hand and fill each cupcake paper three-quarters full.
• Bake the cupcakes in a 350 degree F. oven for 20-25 minutes.
• To frost the top of the cupcakes please check out the Fudge Frosting recipe I have posted.

FUDGE CUPCAKES BY JOANNE FLUKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F Position rack in the middle of oven.
• Line a 12-cup muffin pan with double papers. Since this recipe makes 18 cupcakes, you can use an additional 6-cup muffin pan lined with double papers, or you can butter and flour an 8-inch square cake pan or the equivalent.
• Microwave the chocolate, raspberry syrup and 1/4 sugar in a microwave-safe bowl on high for 1 minute. Stir. Microwave again for another minute. At this point, the chocolate will be almost melted, but it will maintain its shape. Stir the mixture until smooth and let cool to lukewarm. (You can also do this in a double boiler on the stove.).
• Measure flour, mix in baking powder and salt, and set aside.
• In an electric mixer (or with a VERY strong arm), beat the butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. (About 3 minutes with a mixer--an additional 2 minutes if you're doing it by hand.) Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition to make sure they're thoroughly incorporated.
• Add approximately a third of the flour mixture and a third of the milk. (You don't have to be exact--adding the flour and milk in increments makes the batter smoother.) When that's all mixed in, add another third of the flour and another third of the milk. Thwn that's incorporated, add the remainder of the flour and the remainder of the milk. Mix thoroughly.
• Test your chocolate mixture to make sure it's cool enough to add. (You don't want to cook the eggs!) If it's fairly warm to the touch but not so hot you have to pull you hand away, you can add it at this point. Stir thoroughly and you're done.
• Let the batter rest for five minutes. Then stir it again by hand and fill each cupcake paper three-quarters full. If you decided to use the 8-inch cake pan instead of the 6-cup muffin tin, fill it with the remining batter.
• Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes. The 8-inch cake should bake an additional 5 minutes.
• Fudge Frosting -
• 18 cupcake, or 12 cupcakes and 1 small cake, cooled to room temperature and ready to frost.
• 2 cups chocolate chips (12-ounce package).
• 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk.
• If you use a double-boiler for this frosting, it's foolproof. You can also make it in a heavy saucepan over low to medium heat on the stovetop, but you'll have to stir it constantly with a spatula to keep it from scorching.
• Fill the bottom; part of the double boiler with water. Make sure it doesn't touch the underside ot the top.
• Put the chocolate chips in the top of the double-boiler, set it over the bottom, and place the double boiler on the stovetop at medium heat. Stir occasionall ntil the chocolate chips are melted.
• Stir in the can of sweetened condensed milk and cook approximately two minutes, stirring constantly, until the frosting is shiny and of spreading consistency.
• Spread on cupcakes, making sure to fill in the "frosting pocked.".
• Give the frosting pan to your favorite person to scrape.
• These cupcakes are even better if you cool them, cover them and let ehem sit for several hours before frosting them.