Decorated Christmas Chocolate Cupcakes
Easy Decorated Christmas Chocolate Cupcakes with buttercream frosting and some Christmas colors included for your decoration.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 24
- Category: Desserts, cupcakes
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
- Box of devils food cake mix
- box of instant chocolate pudding
- ¾ Cup sour cream
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 2tsp vanilla
- ¾ cup Dr Pepper (Not diet)
Buttercream frosting.
- 2 sticks of butter
- ½ Cup Cream cheese
- 2 tsp vanilla
- ½ Cup heavy whipping cream
- Optional: food coloring of your choice
- 5 Cups powdered sugar (for better absorption)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 Deg. C
- If you making the box of cake mix then. Mix together using the instructions on the cake box.
- If not using box cake mixture then follow the 7-min-chocolate-cake chocolate cake recipe link here for this cupcakes. (also a fast baking 7 min cake)
- Pour the mixture into muffin pans with cupcake holders.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the cup cakes comes out cooked.
Buttercream frosting.
- Cream the cream cheese and the butter together, add vanilla. Alternate powdered sugar and heavy cream until frosting is a thick consistency. You don’t want it too thick, because you have to get it through the decorating tip. Add food coloring if desired.
- Cut the tip off of a frosting bag, be careful not to take off too much. Fill the pastry bag half full and twist t until the frosting moves through the tip. Squeeze the frosting in a nice ring around the cup cake.
Notes
- When you do not want to make a box cake then use a normal chocolate cake mixture. Click here. 7 min.chocolate cake