Mochaccino Cupcakes
Mochaccino Cupcakes | These light and fluffy cupcakes have the perfect blend of coffee and chocolate. No one will be able to resist the light and fluffy coffee buttercream frosting! A sophisticated cupcake for an adult birthday party, dinner party or even game day!
When coffee and chocolate come together you get a delicious cupcake. The added wafer cookie adds another level of flavor and texture. These Mochaccino Cupcakes were a huge hit at the church luncheon. Even the people (including me) that don’t like coffee loved these cupcakes! Like my White Chocolate Espresso Mousse. This dessert might be little in size but it packs a punch of flavor!
WHAT MAKES A GREAT CUPCAKE?
- Use the best ingredients.
- Bring ingredients to room temperature.
- Don’t over mix the batter.
- Use a scoop to fill cupcake liners (don’t eyeball it).
- Preheat the oven.
- Bake in the center of the oven.
You can freeze cupcake/cake batter? To freeze, spoon batter into a labeled zip top bag or container with a tight fitting lid and place in freezer. When ready to use, set batter on the counter to come to room temperature. Spoon into a large mixing bowl and mix until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes).
A great way to celebrate the coffee or chocolate lover in your life! While these cupcakes are the bomb don’t skimp of the frosting! Click here for the delicious recipe—->>>>COFFEE FLAVORED BUTTERCREAM FROSTING.
Mochaccino Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes:
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup dark, bittersweet, or semisweet chocolate pieces
For the Coffee Butter Cream Frosting:
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder
- 6 tablespoons hot water
Instructions
For the Cupcakes:
- Line 30 muffin cups with paper bake cups.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line muffin cups with 30 cupcake liners.
- In a medium bowl stir together flour, the 1 cup cocoa powder, the baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Stir together the espresso powder and hot water.
- In a 2-cup glass measuring cup combine milk and coffee. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
- Gradually add sugar, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating on medium speed until combined.
- Scrape side of bowl; beat for 2 minutes more.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla.
- Alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture to butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition must until combines.
- Stir in chocolate pieces.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each about three-fourths full.
- Use the back of a spoon to smooth out batter in cups.
- Bake about 18 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
- Cool cupcakes in muffin cups on wire racks for 5 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes from muffin cups.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
- Using a pastry bag fitted with a star tip, pipe frosting onto cupcakes.
- Insert wafers.
- Dust with additional cocoa powder.
For the Coffee Butter Cream Frosting:
- In a large mixing bowl beat butter.
- Gradually add 1 cup confectioners' sugar, beating well.
- Stir together the espresso powder and hot water.
- Beat in 3 tablespoons of the coffee.
- Gradually beat in 3 cups additional confectioners' sugar.
- If necessary, beat in additional coffee until butter cream reaches a spreading/pipping consistency.
Notes
This recipe is from Lady Behind The Curtain
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These look amazing what a great idea to add the cookie as garnish topper.
These look amazing! I especially love the cookie garnish 🙂
Oh my! I LOVE coffee and chocolate together. The frosting looks especially delicious!
Thanks for sharing the recipe. I pinned it on pinterest. 🙂
Sounds yummy, i love to bake and have been browsing my books all weekend, after knocking up cookies and flapjack 🙂
what a great combination…coffee and chocolate! These sound delicious and look fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe at Muffin Monday!
These look and sound so yummy!
Thanks so much for linking up your recipes this week!
Smiles,
Melanie
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And then I may have these for dessert! 🙂
These look and sound like trouble! Yum!
These look so good! Following you from the hop now.
Oh heaven help me. Cupcakes are my favorite thing. Love them love them. This recipe looks just fantastic. I just visited an awesme cupcake place in Raleigh and will be psoting about it in a couple of weeks. Come over and visit us. We have some really wonderful Southern recipes this week.
Yum! Love the cookie in them!
Don’t forget you can link up to Cupcake Tuesday 🙂
~Liz
Thanks for taking a minute to add your cupcakes to Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
Oh my how wonderful! I love coffee flavored anyhting but these are in\credible! I “pinned” them too!
Yum! I may ask my daughter to whip up a batch–she’s been on a cupcake-kick! I adore all things coffee.
Thanks so much for sharing with Momtrends for our Friday Food Linky. These look delish–my chocoholic family would love them. Have a great weekend.
Unbelievable… delicious… can’t wait to make them!
How delicious.
I would love for you to share this recipe on my mommy solution meme. For some reason it reminds me of fall and with the Texas heat right now fall would be such a relief.
http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/08/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions-4/
ummm, HELLO! Coffee buttercream! I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for sharing with Sweets This Week.
Sarah
Oh, my boys would love these! They’re huge fans of coffee-flavored treats. You did a beautiful job with these – I love the swirl of rich frosting. Thanks for sharing on Sweet Indulgences Sunday.
this looks incredible! Thanks for linking to Tasty Tuesday.
http://nap-timecreations.blogspot.com/
Well, I missed a whole row on Tuesday’s Tidbits. So, I missed both your entries. Delicious!
These cakes look super yummy. Coffee and chocolate.. just my taste! I wish I could bake well 🙁 I end up messing up with cakes all the time!
We have a link up party going on – Tea Time Thursdays @ Kreative Korner. Would be glad to see some of your awesome posts there. Hope to see you at the party.
http://tanyaanurag.blogspot.com/2011/08/tea-time-thursdays-2-and-features.html
This flavor combo is what my son wants for his birthday cake. He’ll be 16. I am definitely going to make the frosting, at the very least. Looks fabulous!
This is my kind of cupcake!! 🙂 yum, yum!
Now this is a cupcake I could NOT pass up!!
Dear Sheryl, These cupcakes look gorgeous!! Pinning. xo, Catherine
These look intense! I want 3 of them right now (of course, given I had 2 scones today…maybe 3…who’s counting, I might go into a sugar coma, but these look worth the trip)!
These are so gorgeous! And coffee and chocolate so belong together 😉
Thanks Meg! 🙂
For all of those recipe skeptics, fear no more! I assure you that THIS is one of THE BEST cupcakes I’ve ever made. My siblings and I loved it. Just PLEASE be sure to follow the recipe to the letter and before you know it, you’ll be making these masterpieces every single week!
Thanks Joaquina for your kind words. I’m glad you like the recipe. 🙂