Friday, February 18, 2011

Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes





Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Okay, I admit it.... I have fallen off the diet wagon. For crying out loud, cadbury eggs are out at the stores and HAVE been for over a month. Chocolate is my weakness. I may need to consider giving it up for Lent again. In the meantime I have created a new cupcake -- Mint Chocolate Chip. I decided to get creative in the kitchen on a Friday night as my boys played what they called "the zippy cup game". It entertained them for about thirty minute with lots of laughter so I let it slide when I saw the mess it was creating.... I was planning on cleaning floors tomorrow anyways. :)

So.... Here are the results of my cupcake creation

I just started pulling things from my baking drawer.........

Chopped up Peppermint Patties

Gently Stir into Cake Batter


I used a French Vanilla cake mix and added Chopped up Peppermint Patties to it.  I gently stirred and put into a cupcake tin. 

After that I used a Chocolate Cream Cheese icing to frost the cupcakes.  The recipe is below:


Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
1 8 oz Cream Cheese at room temperature
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup Chocolate Cocoa powder
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp Milk (or most depending on your desired consistency of frosting)

Mix cream cheese, sugar & cocoa together.  Then add liquid ingredients.  You can add more milk if needed and more powdered sugar if it's not sweet enough. 

And here we are...





Honestly, these did not turn out exactly how I wanted them to.  The peppermint patties sunk to the bottom of the cupcakes when baked which I thought may happen.  They still had a good flavor to them.  I would definitely pick a different frosting next time, also.  BUT, I did say I was going to post regardless of outcome.....so here we are!!!  :) 




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4 comments:

  1. SteveFebruary 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Hi there!

    My name is Steve Walters and I recently started blogging at http://www.eatingbangkok.com, which is currently being updated with recipes, but in the next few months will be my vehicle for covering the food and restaurant scene in Bangkok Thailand.

    I am now in the process of meeting as many food bloggers as I can and I found your site http://thebakingbelles.blogspot.com recently and was pretty impressed. I've added your site to my Foodie Blogs list here: http://www.eatingbangkok.com/foodie-blogs/ and would also like to add you to my blogroll.

    If you could add my site to your blogroll and write back to let me know it has been added (foodie [at] eatingbangkok.com) I will add you to mine as well and the exchange would be greatly appreciated!

    As you might imagine I am very excited to get moved to Bangkok and get started on covering the food scene there as I feel it is an area that isn't well covered by English speaking bloggers. I plan on adding loads of great reviews, pictures and even video and will be holding contests as well. It should be fun, entertaining and informative for everyone that visits.

    Thank you so much in advance for adding me to your blogroll and I look forward to reading your posts (I've subscribed!) and maybe even featuring some of your own posts as I do plan on a weekly roundup of Thai themed recipes and posts from other food bloggers.

    Warm regards,
    Steve

    P.S. If you are on Twitter I would love to have you as a follower and I follow back:
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  2. LaurenFebruary 21, 2011 at 2:07 PM

    I've been craving mint chocolate cupcakes for a while now and actually have mint buttercream frozen in the freezer. I can't wait to satiate my mint craving!

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  3. Baking BelleFebruary 22, 2011 at 5:50 AM

    Thanks Steve, I will check it out!

    Lauren, mint buttercream sounds delish! I was being experimental when I got a craving for Peppermint...didn't turn out exactly how I was expecting. I think I may stick to recipes next time. :) Do you have your recipe on your blog??

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  4. AnonymousMarch 23, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    These look amazing and you are really bad Carolyn!

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