Chocolate Fudge Mint Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with greased liners.
• Combine boiling water and cocoa powder in a small bowl; whisk until smooth. Allow to cool, about 10 minutes.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar in a large bowl; beat together with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time until smooth. Mix in vanilla extract. Mix in the flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the cocoa mixture. Fold peppermint candies into the batter.
• Scoop batter into the muffin tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes are firm to the touch or a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the pan and set on a rack to cool, about 30 minutes.
• Combine shortening and 1/2 cup butter in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add peppermint extract. Add confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Beat in milk, a tablespoon at a time, until buttercream is desired consistency. Fold in food coloring a little at a time to reach desired shade of green.
• Transfer buttercream to a piping bag fitted with a round or star tip. Frost each cupcake with buttercream.

Steps:

• Line 15x10x1-inch baking pan with foil so foil extends over sides of pan. Grease foil. In large saucepan, combine sugar, butter and evaporated milk; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a full boil, stirring constantly. Boil 5 minutes over medium heat without stirring.
• Remove from heat. Add marshmallows, stirring constantly until mixture is smooth. Remove 2 cups mixture; place in medium saucepan. Set aside.
• To mixture in large saucepan, add chocolate chips, unsweetened chocolate and vanilla; stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Quickly spread mixture in greased foil-lined pan.
• Add white chocolate, peppermint extract and green icing color to reserved mixture in saucepan; stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Pour evenly over fudge in pan; spread gently to cover. Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles. Refrigerate 2 hours or until firm. Remove fudge from pan by lifting foil. Cut into squares.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line cupcake pan with 12 liners.
• Mix according to directions on the box.
• Fill liners 3/4 full and bake 20-25 minutes. They may not look done, if they are firm to the touch and spring back when touched they are done, they will not pass the toothpick test. The centers are fudgey.
• Remove from oven, cool in pan 5 minutes, then remove from pan onto wire racks to cool completely.
• In a bowl mix butter, vanilla, peppermint, food coloring, powdered sugar and milk until smooth and of nice spreading consistency. May add more powdered sugar or drops of milk to achieve the desired consistency.
• Frost cooled cupcakes...drizzle with fudge sauce or ganache if desired. And top with a andes mint candy for garnish. Recipe to follow on site for fudge sauce.
• After frosting your cupcakes, store in an air tight container in the refrigerator for at least 2 hrs. This makes the cupcake even more moist and delicious!!!
• Different options: Using peanut butter frosting instead of mint. then a mini reeses peanut butter cup for garnish. Vanilla or cream cheese frosting, top with a strawberry or raspberry, then drizzle with chocolate...pretty! Put chocolate chips in the batter and top with chocolate frosting for chocolate lovers! Put nearly anything in the batter...caramel filled hersey kisses tucked into each cupcake before baking is fun! Fill cupcakes with cherry pie filling after they cool and top with whipped cream, or vanilla icing and a hersey cherry kiss. OR put a teaspoon of cherry pie filling into each cupcake before baking... Just let your imagination run wild!!! Seriously, whats the worse that could happen??? You'd have a fudgey mess on your hands, so you might have to eat your cupcakes with a spoon and ice cream, that would be a tragedy! lol lol
• I almost forgot! One of the favorite things kids and teens alike love that I do...I make a tower out of the cupcakes after I've frosted them, THEN drizzle with chocolate ganache or fudge sauce over the tower...I'll see if I can find a photo! :)