Recipe
Description
Soft, velvety, chocolate cupcakes topped with sweet cream cheese frosting—that's how you show someone you care.
Servings and Ingredients
Ingredients
Serves 36
Quantity | Ingredient | Add |
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1 ¾ c. Hy-Vee unsalted butter, softened, divided | ||
2 c. Hy-Vee sugar | ||
3 Hy-Vee large eggs, at room temperature | ||
1 (1 oz) bottle red food coloring | ||
3 tsp. Hy-Vee vanilla extract, divided | ||
3 ½ c. Hy-Vee flour | ||
3 tbsp. Hy-Vee baking cocoa | ||
1 tsp. Hy-Vee salt | ||
1 ½ c. low-fat buttermilk | ||
1 ½ tsp. Hy-Vee distilled vinegar | ||
1 ½ tsp. Hy-Vee baking soda | ||
1 (8 oz) pkg Hy-Vee 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, softened | ||
4 c. Hy-Vee powdered sugar |
Things To Grab
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin pans with paper liners.
- Cream 1-1/2 cups butter and sugar until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add red food coloring and 2 teaspoons vanilla; beat well. Scrape down bowl.
- Whisk together flour, cocoa and salt. Add buttermilk to red batter in three parts alternating with the cocoa/flour ingredients, beginning with buttermilk and ending with dry ingredients. Scrape down bowl.
- Stir together vinegar and baking soda in a small bowl. Add to batter and mix well. Scrape down bowl.
- Divide batter among the prepared muffin pans. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and cool completely on a wire rack.
- To make frosting, beat together cream cheese and remaining 1/4 cup butter until light and fluffy. Beat in remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla. Slowly add powdered sugar and beat until fluffy. Frost cooled cupcakes.
Nutrition facts
Servings
250 Calories per serving
Amounts Per Serving
- Total Fat: 11g
- Cholesterol: 40mg
- Sodium: 160mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 35g
- Protein: 3g
Daily Values
0%
Vitamin A 6%
0%
Vitamin C 0%
0%
Iron 4%
0%
Calcium 2%
Recipe Source:
Hy-Vee Seasons Comfort Foods Cookbook.