German Chocolate Cupcakes With Caramel Icing
- Ready In:
- 43mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
18
ingredients
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Cupcakes
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 4 ounces sweet baking chocolate, chopped
- 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup egg substitute (or 2 eggs)
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
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Icing
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1⁄2 cup evaporated low-fat milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons pecans, toasted and chopped
- 2 tablespoons sweetened flaked coconut, toasted
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Line 18 muffin cups with paper liners.
- CUPCAKES: Place 6 tablespoons butter and chocolate in a large microwave-safe bowl; microwave at high 1 minute, stirring after 30 seconds. (Keep an eye on this and adjust as necessary since microwaves vary so much!).
- Stir until chocolate melts.
- Stir in granulated sugar, water, and 2 teaspoons vanilla; add egg substitute, stirring mixture with a whisk.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
- Add flour mixture to chocolate mixture, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
- Spoon batter evenly into muffin cups.
- Bake for 18 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- ICING: Melt 1/4 cup butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Add brown sugar; cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly with a whisk.
- Add milk, and cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat; stir in 2 teaspoons vanilla.
- Gradually add powdered sugar, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
- Working quickly, spread each cupcake with about 1 1/2 tablespoons frosting; sprinkle cupcakes evenly with pecans and coconut.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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