Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes

Moist chocolate cupcakes filled with Smucker's strawberry jam, swirled with cream cheese buttercream frosting and topped with a chocolate covered strawberry. And, of course, there were sweet little babycakes to eat them up!

 

Chocolate cupcakes

 

Filled with Smucker's strawberry jam

Swirled with cream cheese buttercream

 

Piled high with frosting

 

Topped with a chocolate covered strawberry

 

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcake

 

Cassidy shares her cupcakes with friends.

 

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Cassidy Nicole, the Cupcake Princess

 

"I know I can get one of those!"

 

"Got it!"

 Chocolate Cupcakes

1 cup white sugar

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

2 tsp baking soda

1 cup water

2 TBSP grape jelly (room temp)

1 cup mayonnaise (room temp)

  2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp salt

This is the same chocolate cupcake recipe that Cassidy shared in her previous post. However, she decided to experiment by adding one egg white to the batter. This helped the cupcake keep it's shape so it could be eaten by hand, as a cupcake should be. The cupcake was still incredibly moist. We pulled them out of the oven when they still appeared to be underdone. They even left a little batter on the knife. By the time they were cooled, though, they were completely cooked through thanks to carry-over cooking.

These cupcakes were so moist and yummy. They were beautiful to look at, too. The cream cheese buttercream frosting is Cassidy's own recipe. She will share the recipe in a future post once she gets it perfected.