Chocolate-covered Cherry Cupcakes

"These are made using Hershey's Milk Chocolate Candy Bars ; )"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
18
Yields:
12 cupcakes
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Line 12 regular-size (2 1/2-in. diameter) muffin cups with paper or foil liners.
  • Whisk flour and cocoa powder in a small bowl until blended; set aside.
  • In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt with a mixer on high speed 2 minutes or until well blended.
  • Add egg and vanilla; beat 2 minutes or until fluffy.
  • Reduce mixer speed to low; beat in milk (batter will look curdled), then the flour mixture just until blended.
  • Spoon evenly into lined muffin cups Place a square of chocolate in center of each cupcake.
  • Top with a cherry and another square of chocolate.
  • Bake 18 to 20 minutes until a pick inserted off center comes out clean.
  • Cool in pan on a wire rack 5 minutes before removing from pan to rack to cool com-pletely (cupcakes will sink in center).
  • Frosting: Beat cream cheese, but-ter and cherry juice in a medium bowl with mixer on high speed until blend-ed and smooth.
  • Reduce speed to low; beat in confectioners' sugar.
  • Refriger-ate 15 minutes or until firm enough to spread.
  • Frost cupcakes.
  • To garnish: Top each cupcake with 1 or 2 cherries.
  • Melt chocolate bar and scrape into a ziptop bag.
  • Cut a tip off a corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over half or all the cupcakes.
  • Cover and refrigerate until serving or up to 1 day.

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Reviews

  1. These were a huge hit! They look gorgeous and they are pretty easy to make. Hubby and kids raved over these. I followed the recipe exact except I did not have cherries with stems, so I decorated the tops with stemless ones :) These would be fabulous at a party or shower. A couple suggestions if you make these: watch carefully, because I left mine in for 18 minutes and they probably should have come out a bit sooner. Also, the frosting recipe makes A LOT! I think I probably could have cut it in half. Our cupcakes had about 3/4 of an inch of frosting on them and I still had extra frosting. Thanks for posting this, RecipeNut!
     
  2. This was a really good recipe! I made 1/2 of the batter into cupcakes, and made the other half into a mini tub-cake with chocolate and cherries in the middle. I took a picture just for fun. Thanks for the recipe!!:-)
     
  3. So good! I changed the recipe a little... used a boxed devil's food cake mix because I was short on time, and omitted the drizzled chocolate over the top because I didn't think it needed it. They came out really pretty and tasted great. Thanks!
     
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