Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Dear Husband-who-is-my-best-friend-and-who-I-love-oh-so-much,
Happy Birthday to you!
Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup strong brewed coffee, cooled
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Chocolate frosting
Directions:
- Allow the butter and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Grease and flour muffin cups, or line with paper bake cups. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Combine milk and coffee in a 2-cup measuring glass.
- Beat the butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds and then gradually add sugar and continue to mix. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Mix in the vanilla.
- Alternate between the flour and milk mixture and add these two mixtures to the butter mixture. Beat well between each addition.
- Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
- Bake approximately 18 minutes or until the tops of the cupcakes spring back.
- Cool cupcakes in muffin tin on wire rack for 5 minutes and then remove from the muffin tin and cool completely.
- Top the cupcakes with frosting.
What is your favorite treat to have on your birthday?
*Recipe slightly adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Cupcake Magazine
I'll bet your husband was so happy with these cupcakes. Coffee and chocolate are a match made in heaven.
So fun!! Happy b-day to your hubby, I love a good chocolate cupcake myself :)
I love anything that involves chocolate and coffee. Happy birthday to your hubby! :-)
Those cupcakes sound delicious! My daughter just went and made cupcakes with her Grandma today… cupcakes are everywhere!
Yay! Happy Birthday to your husband, these look delicious and I know my husband would like these as well. :)
Yum, these look fantastic! I wish I had one right now to wake me up! Great picture too!
looks great! I really want to try these but I think the Flour is missing in the ingredients.
You have a lucky husband! :) Those cupcakes look amazing. My hubby's birthday is actually this weekend, and we're having a small dinner party at our house. He opted for cheesecake as his "birthday cake" this year… I didn't argue! :)
I love coffee. I love chocolate. I love cupcakes. Need I say more?
Aw, how sweet! I hope he had a wonderful birthday. The cupcakes look beautiful, what a nice birthday treat.
Great looking cupcakes, very nice job you did, thanks for sharing.
So sweet- hope he reads your blog! Mine might miss a message like that!
I found your blog through pinterest- and oddly enough not even for this recipe. But! I made these today and they are FANTASTIC! I love that you can really taste the coffee. I find that most baked goods that mix chocolate and coffee usually just end up tasting like dark chocolate- BUT these are fantastic for any coffee love. Cheers! I hope he had a wonderful birthday with many more to come.
Hi, the recipe sounds absolutely delicious! I am going to make these today :) Could you please tell me how many cupcakes your recipe makes? I cant seem to find that info.
Thanks! :)
I did this recipe with a twist for Christmas. I had some powderized candy cane from a previous baking experiment gone wrong, so instead of using 2 cups sugar, I used 1c sugar and 1c candy cane. It seemed to come out with just a hint of mint. Next time I'm going to try swapping out 1 1/2c :) topped with whatever comes to mind!
they turned out beautifully, thank you for the recipe!