Devils Food Chocolate Muffins Recipe 455

Steps:

• Coat 12 muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a mixing bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder,sugar, baking soda, and salt; stir to combine.
• In another bowl, add the milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla; whisk until blended.
• Add the liquid ingredients and 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the dry ingredients.
• Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened; be careful not to overmix.
• Pour batter evenly into muffin cups.
• Sprinkle remaining chocolate chips evenly over muffin batter.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 20-22 minutes or until pick comes out clean.
• Place pan on a wire rack to cool for a few minutes before removing muffins from pan.

Steps:

• Coat 12 muffin cups with nonstick spray or use paper baking cups. In a mixing bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, an salt;stir to combine. IN another bowl, add the milk, oil, egs, and vanilla; whisk until blended. Add theliquid ingredients and 1/2 the chocolate chips to the dry ingredients. Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened; be careful not to overmix. Pour batter evenly into muffin cups. Sprinkle remaining chocolate chips evenly over batter. Bake at 400 for 20-22 minutes oruntil pick comes out clean. Place on wire rack to cool for a fewminutes before removing muffins from pans.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely.
• Line cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper. Melt candy melts as directed on package; spoon into resealable food-storage plastic bag. Seal bag; cut off tiny corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe melted candy into devils' horn and tail shapes on parchment paper. Refrigerate 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until smooth. Beat in vanilla and food color. Pipe or spread frosting on cupcakes. Insert horns and tail into frosting on each cupcake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-F.
• Line a standard muffin tin with a dozen, 2-1/2 inch, cup-cake paper baking cups.
• In a mixing bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix dry ingredients well with whisk or wooden spoon.
• In another mixing bowl add the milk, yogurt, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla extract. Mix well with whisk or wooden spoon until blended.
• Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients along with 1/2 of the chocolate chips.
• Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Careful not to over mix.
• Pour batter into 12 muffin cups. Fill each almost to the top.
• Sprinkle the other half of the chocolate chips evenly into the filled muffin cups.
• Bake at 350-F for 20 to 25-minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into center of muffin.
• Cool before serving.
• Makes 12 (2-1/2inch) muffins.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk together boiling water and cocoa. Cover and set aside. With a mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla extract. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and continue creaming until light and fluffy. Sift together the flour, baking soda and baking powder and add this mixture, alternately with the buttermilk. Add cocoa and water mixture and mix until thoroughly combined. Scoop into cupcake pans and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Let cool completely before decorating. Dip tops of cooled cupcakes in the warm ganache and let set. Pipe more ganache on top for decoration. To fill, put buttercream in a pastry bag with a small round tip. Stick tip into the center of each cupcake and pipe in filling. Be careful not to pipe too much or you will break the cupcake. Serve.
• Chop chocolate and place in a stainless steel or glass bowl. Bring cream and sugar just to a boil in a small saucepan and then pour over chocolate. Whisk together and then stir in butter until melted.
• Whisk together the egg whites and sugar in a stainless steel bowl. Place bowl in a water bath set over low heat. Whisk occasionally until sugar is dissolved and mixture is very warm, about 150 degrees F. Remove from water bath and whip with a hand-held mixer on high speed until stiff peaks. Lower speed and add the butter in small pieces. Add vanilla and violet essence and mix until smooth. Add violet color, 1 drop at a time, until desired shade is reached. Use to fill cupcakes as directed above.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line 2 muffin tins with 16 paper muffin cases. Whisk together 175ml boiling water with the cocoa powder in a medium-sized bowl until smooth. Allow the mixture to cool until it reaches room temperature (put it in the freezer to speed it up), then whisk it with the eggs and vanilla.
• In an electric mixer, combine the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and sugar. Mix on a low speed for 30 secs, then add one-third of the cocoa liquid and softened butter. Keep mixing on a low speed, then turn up to medium high and beat for 1 min. Add the remaining liquid in 3 batches, beating each one for 30 secs. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl with a spatula and mix one more time. Fill the cupcake liners three-quarters full and bake for 20 mins, then remove and let them cool in the tin.
• To make the frosting, beat the butter and cream cheese for 2-3 mins until creamy, then add the vanilla. While still mixing, pour in the sugar in 4 batches, beating each time to fully combine. Beat for a further min, then chill for 2 hrs.
• Swirl the frosting over the cooled cupcakes and decorate with silver balls or whatever you like.