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🍽️ Moist Chocolate Cupcakes with Caramel Topping
685 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate couverture
- 100 g butter
- 4 chocolate-caramel bars (e.g. Snickers)
- 2 eggs
- 100 g sour cream
- 100 g sugar
- 250 g flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 120 g soft butter
- 1 small amount vanilla bean paste
- 60 g sugar
- 120 g cream cheese
- 1 tbsp caramel syrup
- 150 g powdered sugar
- 2 chocolate-caramel bars (e.g. Snickers)
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius fan-forced.
- 2. Grease a muffin tin and dust it lightly with flour.
- 3. Roughly chop the chocolate coating.
- 4. Heat the butter in a saucepan.
- 5. Add the chopped coating to the hot butter.
- 6. Stir until the chocolate has completely melted.
- 7. Let the chocolate mixture cool down briefly.
- 8. Cut the chocolate bars into about 12 small pieces, each 2 cm in size.
- 9. Whisk the eggs with the sour cream and the sugar.
- 10. Mix the flour with the cornstarch, baking powder, cocoa, and salt in a separate bowl.
- 11. Stir the dry flour mixture into the egg-chocolate butter cream.
- 12. Distribute about two-thirds of the batter evenly into the molds.
- 13. Use a small spoon to make a small indentation in the center of each batter mound.
- 14. Place a piece of chocolate bar into each batter indentation.
- 15. Cover the chocolate pieces with the remaining batter.
- 16. Bake the cupcakes on the middle rack for approx. 25 minutes.
- 17. Remove the cupcakes from the oven and let them cool completely.
- 18. Beat the butter for the topping creamy with the vanilla and the sugar.
- 19. Stir the cream cheese and the caramel syrup into the butter cream.
- 20. Add powdered sugar gradually until the cream is thick and pipeable.
- 21. Spread the finished cream onto the cooled cupcakes.
- 22. Cut the chocolate caramel bars into small pieces.
- 23. Decorate the cupcakes with the chocolate pieces.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 685
- Protein: 8 g · Fett/Fat: 38 g · Carbs: 72 g