Mexican Hot Chocolate Cup Cakes With Cocoa Whipped Cream Recipes

MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine butter, oil, cocoa and water in a saucepan and heat until butter is melted.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, sugar, milk, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla.
• Add melted butter mixture to the flour mixture and blend.
• Pour batter into a greased 9X13X2-inch baking pan and bake 20-25 minutes or until done.
• While cake is still hot, ice cake.
• For icing, combine butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and heat until bubbly around the edge.
• Remove from heat and add powdered sugar, vanilla, and pecans.

MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE MINI-BUNDT CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°; grease and flour 12 mini-bundt forms and set aside (if you only have a Mini-Bundt pan with six cavities, bake this recipe in two batches).
• In a bowl, whisk the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking soda, salt, cayenne, and cinnamon together; set aside.
• Beat eggs and buttermilk together and set aside.
• Melt butter and chocolate together in the top of a double boiler or in a metal bowl suspended over simmering water; make sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water.
• Add in cocoa powder and espresso; stir until thoroughly combined.
• Add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture.
• Stir in the remaining 1 cup sugar, vanilla, and almond extract.
• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients; mix until thoroughly combined and any lumps are dissolved.
• Pour the batter into the prepared Mini-Bundt pans.
• Bake for 20 minutes exactly; let the bundts cool for 10 minutes before inverting them onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
• Delicious served plan or with a dollop of whipped cream or chocolate whipped cream.

MEXICAN HOT COCOA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven as directed on box. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
• In large bowl, beat cake mix, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, the milk, oil, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on high speed 2 minutes. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full.
• Bake cupcakes and cool completely as directed on box.
• Frost cooled cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon.

MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• Beat white sugar, brown sugar, and butter together in the bowl of a stand mixer until thoroughly blended and creamy. Add egg; beat well. Mix in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
• Combine flour, 2/3 cup cocoa powder, baking powder, coffee, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon in a second bowl. Blend with a whisk until fluffy and no clumps appear. Alternate adding the flour mixture and 1 cup milk into the butter mixture, mixing until just combined. Fill muffin cups 2/3-full of batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 17 minutes. Move to a wire rack to cool completely, at least 25 minutes.
• Beat butter in the bowl of the stand mixer; add confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating until creamy. Add 2 tablespoons milk; mix until frosting is creamy. Mix in 1/2 cup cocoa powder and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
• Fit a piping bag with a coupler and tip. Drop piping bag into a tall glass and fold edges down around the glass. Spoon frosting into the bag. Gather edges and twist together. Pipe frosting onto the cupcakes.