Chocolate Cream Cupcakes

Name: Chocolate Cream Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 1/2 cup, boiling water; 1/3 cup (1 ounce), unsweetened cocoa powder; 1/3 cup (2 ounces), semisweet chocolate chips; 1 tablespoon, instant espresso powder; 3/4 cup (5¼ ounces), sugar; 1/2 cup, sour cream; 1/2 cup, vegetable oil; 2 large, eggs; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 3 tablespoons, water; 3/4 teaspoon, unflavored gelatin; 4 tablespoon (1/2 stick), unsalted butter, softened; Pinch, salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/4 cups, marshmallow crème; 1/2 cup (3 ounces), semisweet chocolate chips; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

SERVESMakes 12 cupcakes

TIME2¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Blooming cocoa in boiling water and adding chocolate chips and espresso powder gave our Chocolate Cream Cupcakes recipe plenty of chocolate depth. Simply plopping a marshmallow into the batter created moonlike craters in our cupcakes. Combi...

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