Pumpkin Shaped Chocolate Cupcakes
Rich chocolate cupcakes with orange "pumpkin" buttercream frosting and Hallween decorations make these Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Cupcakes a real treat.
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Ingredients
For the cupcakes:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For the buttercream frosting:
- 3 cups powdered sugar sifted
- 1 cup butter. softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 TBSP heavy cream
- orange food coloring
- green food coloring
- orange sanding sugar
- 20 Tootsie Rolls
Instructions
For the cupcakes:
- Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
- Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes.
- Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).
- Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks.
- Cool completely.
For the frosting and to decorate:
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the butter and powder sugar on low until blended, then mix on medium for 2 to 3 minutes until fluffy.
- Add vanilla and heavy cream and blend one more minute.
- Add more cream to get to desired consistency.
- Place a small amount of frosting into a small bowl and add green food coloring until the frosting is the color that you want. Spoon into a baggie and set aside.
- Add orange food coloring to the remaining frosting until you get the orange color that you want. If you are combining red and yellow go slow with the colors because otherwise you could end up with a color that you do not like by adding too much of one color.
- Once you have the decided the colors, frost each cupcake with the orange frosting, then sprinkle with the orange sugar.
- Snip the corner of the baggie of green frosting and make vines on the cupcakes.
- Stick an unwrapped tootsie roll into the side of the cupcake where you drew the vines.