Cinfully Delicious Chocolate Cupcakes (from AllRecipes, Servings: 18, Total Time: 1 hour, 15
minutes)
Cake Ingredients
· 1 (13.25 oz.) package
chocolate cake mix
· ¾ cup milk
· 2 eggs
· ¼ cup butter, melted
· ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
· ½ tsp. vanilla extract
· ½ tsp. cinnamon sugar,
or as needed
Frosting Ingredients
· ¾ cup butter
· 1 pinch sea salt
· ½ tsp. vanilla extract
· ½ Tbsp. ground
cinnamon
· ½ Tbsp. unsweetened
cocoa powder
· 1 ½ cups
confectioners' sugar
· 1/8 – ¼ cup milk
· 1 cup confectioners'
sugar, or more as needed
Directions
1. Preheat an oven to 350
degrees F.
2. Line 18 muffin cups
with paper liners.
3. Beat together all cake
ingredients, except cinnamon sugar, in a bowl with an electric mixer on low speed
until moist. Beat for 2 more minutes on medium speed.
4. Fill each muffin cup
about 2/3 full of batter.
5. Sprinkle the cupcakes
with cinnamon sugar.
6. Bake in the preheated
oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 15
minutes.
7. Cool in the pans for
10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.
8. While cupcakes are
cooling, in a large bowl, cream together butter sea salt, vanilla extract,
cinnamon, cocoa powder, and 1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar.
9. Stir in milk.
10. Mix in additional
confectioners' sugar or as needed until desired consistency is achieved.
11. Spread the frosting on
the cooled cupcakes.
A delicacy I made for my husband’s birthday. Since I
don’t really like a lot of cinnamon, I didn’t taste the cupcakes, but I did
taste the frosting for consistency – very light and pretty delicious (in spite
of the cinnamon!). My husband really enjoyed the cupcakes and that were
gobbled up pretty quickly at his birthday celebration!
