Photo chocolate malted cupcakes by rachel is coconut&lime
I am a sucker for chocolate malt anything--and in cupcake form these babies are particularly attractive!
Yes, they are worthy of any dinner part dessert, pizza or game night dessert, child or adult birthday party--they are perfect for any situation.
These chocolate malted cupcakes are the little black dress of cupcakes!
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Malted Cupcakes
Photo Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins Mosaic by babe_ki
Okay, so "Awwww" is in order here, no?
These are adorable, and I love that they are muffins that have frosting and candy on top!
Low-fat never looked so delish!
This is my kind of breakfast....
Grab the recipe! Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins
Photo Cute Birthday Girl Cupcake by traoki
These are cupcakes, and are they not the sweetest things!
I can see folks going ga-ga over these at either a child's or a grown up girl's party--so festive and whimsical!
The hair is chocolate icing done with a star tip, and you may have been able to tell that the hair ornament is actually a slice of raspberry (awwww!). Eyes and smile are black and pink gel.
So, it looks pretty easy to do--you could even use a box mix for the cupcakes and just customize the decorations like these here!
Photo chocolate devil's food cupcakes by chotda
Are these not adorable?
And I bet they taste a million times better than those treats we used to get in our lunch boxes when we were kids (not that they weren't tasty!)
But these are actually homemade--we have a devil's food cake, whipped cream squirted into the center, and then double dipped in chocolate ganache.
And of course the thing that makes these cupcakes is the white doodles on top that remind us of 3rd grade!
I love these cupcakes, and want to make them!
Recipe? These cupcakes are gorgeous and I'm sure that they taste divine, but if I were going to make these I would take the easy way out and just use a box mix.
We cannot however use canned frosting as ganache--I think we need to make that ourselves.
And then for the squiggles--either use white frosting in a piping bag (or a plastic bag with a corner snipped), or you can buy the white writing frosting in a tube at the store.
It's just a tiny bit of work, but it's worth it, right????
Photo the pumpkin patch 1 by chotda
Alrighty, who is planning what they'll make for their Halloween parties?
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so full of imagination and mischief and CHOCOLATE!
Check out these lovelies--these cupcakes are devil's food cake with a buttercream frosting, and perched on top is an adorable candy pumpkin.
These little pumpkin candies are available in most Halloween sections now in stores.
They taste sort of like candy corn, and they totally make the cupcake!
Y'all, I would seriously just buy a devil's food cake mix in a box and used the canned frosting.
You can make it look all fancy like these by using a simple cake decorating set that will let you make the icing all swirly.
Photo Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes by Up Late Cakes
Y'all--this recipe looks amazing--this the cupcake version, but the recipe is for an entire cake.
In the cake version, they used an orange frosting and had chocolate ganache or something running down over the top (click the recipe link to see that pic).
These would be perfect for a Halloween party--and can we say that these are healthy cuz they have pumpkin in them?
I think so!
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
Image: cupcakes from heaven by massdistraction
So, guess what? These are Vegan!
But why am I not surprised--whenever I see an especially delectable chocolate dessert (especially if it's a cupcake) I just assume it's Vegan.
This recipe originated from the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, which I am totally putting on my birthday list!
I hope I can wait that long--I might have to buy it before then, because I'm considering just doing a sampling of cupcakes from VCTOTW to serve as my official "birthday cake"-- wouldn't that be fun?
These cupcakes would do any birthday girl proud!
Grab the recipe! Vegan Chocolate Mint Cupcakes
Bonus time! Here's another family portrait for these cupcakes [SWOON]:
Photo: chocolate mint and chocolate chocolate by massdistraction
Image by nicoleisvegan
There are some cupcakes that just take things up a couple hundred notches, and this is one of them!
Forget your classic yellow batter with chocolate buttercream, move aside devil's food with fudge frosting--make way for the Chocolate Chipotle Cupcake with Lime Filling and Lime Frosting (and it's vegan--why does this not surprise me?!)!
This is the culinary masterpiece of Nicole, from Cupquake, and this is her entry in the Iron Cupcake Challenge. I never knew that there was such a competition, but I'm all for it!
I think she has a good shot with this entry--what do you think?
Go to the link below for the recipe and to see what the deal is and how to vote for Nicole in this Iron Cupcake Competition (the voting starts on August 31st and run through September 4th)
Grab the recipe! Chocolate Chipotle Cupcake with Lime Pudding filling and Lime Cream Cheese Frosting
Image by ashdmarcin
We saw another peanut butter cupcake recipe the other day, but this one looks very different, and definitely the presentation is more "gooey" ;-) than the other more "polished" cupcakes from the other day.
In this photo, it is the frosting that is getting me--I LOVE that it's pilled up on top in a heap cuz you know that if the cupcake part is very peanut buttery, you will need a whole bunch of frosting to balance it out.
That is just a hard cold fact--more frosting = more yumminess!
Grab the recipe! Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Fudgy Frosting
S'Mores Cupcake originally uploaded by kpetz1971
This is the cupcake version of the famous s'more treat, and it is adorable!
I am a sucker for s'mores--you cannot go wrong with chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers all toasty warm and melty!
The recipe comes from Martha Stewart's site, and there it even includes a recipe for Marshmallow Frosting!!!!
I never knew that there was such a thing, but now I'm wondering how I've lived without it for so long :-)
Grab the recipe! S'mores Cupcake
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