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Chocolate Cupcakes with Sour Cream Frosting
I‘ve never been a huge fan of frosting or icing, especially not the store bought kind or bakery icing. I would way rather eat the cake and skip the icing. I’m not the best hand at icing cakes either (obviously!). When I make icing it is almost always cream cheese icing, that is my exception, I lick the spoon, the bowl and then scoop some more on the spoon, you get the idea. My Mother-in-law on the other hand makes really fantastic frosted cakes. She was kind enough to share this frosting recipe with me. It came from one of her older cookbooks, The New Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. Which made me wonder how long they’ve been saying, “New”. Anyhow, she knew I would love this because it’s made with sour cream. Pretty unusual, but it creates a really creamy and delicious frosting. I used the Chocolate-Chocolate Cupcake recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking From my home to yours cookbook. I have shared a few recipes from that cookbook and if you don’t have it, buy it. Every recipe I have tried is beyond words, a truly essential baking book! So I’m not sharing the cupcake recipe today, if you have Dorie’s book use this recipe and if not you can choose one that you like or use a cake mix, that will work great too! I really piled the frosting on these cupcakes, if you are conservative I think the recipe would frost 24 cupcakes or a 9 inch layer cake.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Sour Cream Frosting
adapted from The New Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
Ingredients:
- 1 Chocolate cake mix, or scratch recipe for 12 cupcakes
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup Snowcaps or sprinkles for decorating
Directions:
Bake cupcakes according to package or recipe directions and allow to cool.
In a microwave safe bowl, add chocolate chips and butter. Microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until chocolate and butter have melted, about 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Pour mixture into a bowl of electric mixer and add sour cream. Beat until combined. Add powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time, beating until incorporated and desired consistency is achieved.
Spread or pipe icing over cooled cupcakes and sprinkle with Snowcaps.
Enjoy!
Miss
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Hahahah. My wife is the complete opposite of you, ditches the cake and goes straight for the frosting.
These cupcakes look great!
Thanks Chris, maybe she would like this frosting.
I’m disappointed you can’t give us the cupcake recipe, they look great! I’ve traditionally used this recipe:
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/16573/devilish-chocolate-cupcakes.aspx
I’m excited to try the frosting on these!
I hope you like it!
Oooh, sour cream frosting sounds fabulous. I’m not a huge fan of most frostings either.
I bet you would like this one, I really did.
Ok one word…YUM! Why must you live so far away from me? I’d surely come help you get rid of some of the amazingness you pump out of your new lovely kitchen!
That would be nice Heather, we could totally trade dishes!!
I am exactly the same! I’ll scrape all the frosting off and go for the cake nearly every time unless the frosting has some “tang” to it like cream cheese or sour cream. So, I know for sure that I’d love these cupcakes. Will be trying them as soon as possible!
And I thought I was the only one who doesn’t like frosting, hope you give this one a shot.
Uh humm…I like a little cake with my frosting! And the cake has to be super moist. If it’s dry? I will just eat the frosting
I know you won’t judge! 
These look so pretty, Milisa. Your photo is gorgeous and I would love to sink my teeth into one of these right about now! I really like cream cheese frostings, too, because I think they aren’t cloyingly sweet like some all butter frostings. I have never had a sour cream frosting…I bet it is delicious!
Thanks Kim, I would gladly give you all my frosting!
Thanks, Milisa. This was my “virtual dessert” tonight.
Virtual dessert, that’s never filling enough for me!
The frosting sounds fabulous, and of course you can never go wrong with cake from Dorie’s book! Yum!
Dorie’s recipes are so good, I love them all.
I don’t know what it is about sour cream but it really does make for some utterly delicious chocolate frosting!
This was the first time I tried sour cream in frosting, I loved it!
Oh holy heaven, sour cream frosting sounds divine!
looks utterly delicious…yummmm
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Thanks for stopping by Jay and leaving a comment so I could visit your site too.
That Dorie baking cookbook is one of my favorites. These cupcakes are so pretty!
Thanks Dara! You made my day saying my cupcakes are pretty!
Great picture. The cupcakes look yummy. Come over and visit us today. We have a great sorbet recipe. Easy and delicious.
Thanks for the photo compliments! I love sorbet, heading over now to see what you have!
oooh, these look so naughty and good!
They are pretty naughty and oh so good, thanks for stopping by!!
The cupcakes looks delicious. Sour cream are always a great addition to frostings
These look fabulous!
Thanks for stopping by Alison!
The recipe sounds so great and the pictures determined me to give it a try! Thank you for sharing!
Sour cream frosting sounds new to me. I probably try this at home for our cupcakes. Thanks for sharing it.