Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcake :)
Ingredients :
- -->1 cup Dutch process cocoa
- -->2 cups boiling water
- -->1 cup butter, softened
- -->2 cups superfine sugar
- -->4 large eggs
- -->2 3/4 cups all-purpose soft-wheat flour
- -->1 teaspoon baking soda
- -->1 teaspoon baking powder
- -->1/2 teaspoon salt
- -->1 teaspoon chocolate extract
- -->Paper baking cups
- -->Vegetable cooking spray
- Chocolate Ganache:
- -->1 cup whipping cream
- -->8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- Mint Frosting:
- -->1/2 cup butter, softened
- -->1/4 cup whipping cream
- -->1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- -->2 drops green liquid food coloring
- -->1/8 teaspoon salt
- -->1 (16-oz.) package powdered sugar
- Toppings:
- -->1 cup crumbled thin creme de menthe chocolate mints
Preparations :
- - Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cocoa and 2 cups boiling water in a large heatproof bowl, stirring until blended and smooth; cool completely. Beat butter with a mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture alternately with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in chocolate extract.
- - Place paper baking cups in 2 (12-cup) muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter into cups, filling two-thirds full. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely.
- - To prepare ganache, cook cream in a heavy nonaluminum saucepan over medium heat, stirring often, just until it begins to steam (do not boil); remove from heat. Place chocolate in a glass bowl. Slowly add hot cream to chocolate, beating with a whisk until chocolate melts and mixture is well blended. The mixture will thicken as it cools. Makes about 2 cups.
- - Fill each cupcake with Chocolate Ganache. To fill cupcakes, insert the end of a wooden spoon or dowel into the center of the cupcake to make a hole. Fill a zip-top plastic freezer bag with filling or frosting. Use scissors or kitchen shears to snip about 1/4 inch from one corner of the bag; insert bag into the hole in the cupcake. Squeeze gently until filling comes to the top of each cupcake.
- - To prepare frosting, beat first 5 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended. Beat at high speed 2 minutes or until creamy. Makes 3 cups.
- Frost each cupcake with Mint Frosting. Top each with crumbled chocolate mints.

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