Monster Chocolate Cupcakes for Halloween recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup milk
1 tablespoon white vinegar
½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
10 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
2 large eggs
¾ cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch salt
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
¼ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 drops green food coloring
24 candy eyeballs

Nutrition Info

315.5 calories
carbohydrate: 32.1 g
cholesterol: 82.9 mg
fat: 20 g
fiber: 1.4 g
protein: 4.5 g
saturatedFat: 12.1 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 133.4 mg
sugar: 20.9 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Let stand until milk curdles, about 5 minutes.

  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.

  3. Combine 1/2 cup butter, white sugar, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl, beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

  4. Mix 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Alternate adding flour mixture and curdled milk to the creamed butter mixture, mixing until batter is well blended. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center of 1 cupcake comes back clean, about 14 minutes. Cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

  6. Combine cream cheese and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl, beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners' sugar gradually. Color frosting green with a few drops of food coloring.

  7. Place green frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Hold the pastry bag at a 90-degree angle 1/8 inch above the surface of a cupcake. Squeeze bag to form green 'fur' by pulling tip up and away when the icing strand is about 1/2 inch high. Repeat to cover cupcake evenly with fur. Add 2 eyes to each cupcake.

Recipe Yield

12 chocolate cupcakes

Recipe Note

Who doesn't love a monster? After my kids watched the movie 'Monsters, Inc' they wanted me to make them monster cupcakes and I obliged...and now we make them every year, especially during Halloween.

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