02/15/2023
A hump day pick-me-up 🐪 Chocolate Espresso Cupcakes 🍫☕️
• Ingredients
1 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup cocoa powder
4oz bittersweet chocolate chips
1 shot espresso
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs, room temperature
1 cup sour cream
1 3/4 cup AP flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
• Frosting Ingredients
5 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter, softened
3 tbsp heavy cream
1 shot of espresso, room temperature
• Instructions
1. In a small saucepan, combine butter, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and espresso together until melted and smooth. 2. Remove from heat. Allow some time to cool a little but not so much time that the chocolate mixture becoming grainy. Trick is to keep whisking to allow air in to cool it while maintaining smooth texture.
3. In a stand mixer, whisk together the sugar, eggs and sour cream.
4. In another large bowl sift together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside.
5. In the stand mixer, slowly add chocolate mixture into the sugar, eggs and sour cream mixture at a slow speed. Be sure that your chocolate mixture is cooled so that you don’t curdle your eggs.
6. Once the two wet bowls of ingredients are combined in the stand mixer, slowly add the sifted dry ingredients until combined.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
8. Line cupcake tin with liners.
9. Pour batter into tins. I use a scooper to evenly measure each cupcake.
10. Bake for 12-15 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• Frosting Instructions
1. In a stand mixer fixed with whisk attachment, whip powdered sugar, butter, and espresso from low speed to high speed.
2. Add tbsp of heavy cream as needed to achieve desired consistency.
3. Place into piping bag and pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
4. Garnish with a sprinkle of cocoa powder and a chocolate chip, if desired, and enjoy❣️