Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate cupcakes with pomegranate cream cheese frosting. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate cupcakes with pomegranate cream cheese frosting using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Make ready 1 FOR CUPCAKES
- Prepare 2 cup granulated sugar
- Prepare 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- Get 3/4 cup special dark hersheys cocoa
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1/2 cup oil such as canola oil
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 cup boiling water
- Get 1 FOR POMEGRANATE FROSTING
- Take 1 1/2 cup pomegranate juice
- Prepare 4 oz butter at room temperature
- Make ready 8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
- Prepare 12 oz powdered sugar, about 4 cups
- Get 7 oz bag of chocolate covered pomegranat juice pieces I use a brand called brookside they are in the candy section of the grocery store
Instructions to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
- MAKE CUPCAKES
- Preheat oven to 350, line cupcake tins with paper liners, this makes 24 cupcakes
- In a large bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add eggs, milk oil and vanilla. Beat until combined. Stir in boiling water ( the batter will be very thin). Pour batter evenly into 24 paper lined cupcake tins. Bake 16 to 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.Cool on a rack
- FOROMEGRANATE FROSTING
- In a small saucepan, over medium heat reduce pomegranate juice by one half this will take awhile so I would advise doing this in advance or while the cupcakes are cooking.This must be cool before using in frosting.
- Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy.Slowly add powdered sugar and cooled pomegranate juice beat until smooth, you may not need all the sugar once you have a creamy fluffy frosting its done,
- Frost the cooled cupcakes with frosting top each cupcake with 3 chocolate covered pomegranate juice pieces, if you can not find them garnish with chocolate shavings
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