Box-of-Chocolates Cupcakes Recipe

From Taste of Home

Who wants a regular box of chocolates when you can have these decadent chocolate cupcakes? The different fillings prove that you never know what you're going to get!


 

Total Time

Prep: 1 hour + chilling Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Makes

2 dozen

 

 

Ingredients

• 1 package devil's food cake mix (regular size)
• 1-1/3 cups strong brewed coffee
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup canola oil

FILLING:

• 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 4 tablespoons strong brewed coffee, divided
• 3 egg yolks, beaten
• 2 tablespoons thawed orange juice concentrate
• 2 tablespoons Nutella
• 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
• 1-1/2 cups whipped topping

GANACHE:

• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
• 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream, divided
• 2-1/2 teaspoons corn syrup, divided
• Paste food coloring of your choice

 

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, coffee, eggs and oil; beat on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium 2 minutes. Fill prepared cups two-thirds full.
• Bake 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, in top of a double boiler or a metal bowl over simmering water, melt chocolate with sugar and 3 tablespoons coffee, stirring until sugar is dissolved (mixture will be thick). Whisk in egg yolks; cook and stir 4-5 minutes or until mixture reaches 160°.
• Divide mixture among three small bowls. Stir orange juice concentrate into one bowl. Stir Nutella and cream into another; stir remaining coffee into the third bowl. Fold 1/2 cup whipped topping into each. Chill 10 minutes.
• Cut a small hole in the tip of a pastry bag or in a corner of a food-safe plastic bag; insert a very small pastry tip. Transfer one filling to bag. With a metal or wooden skewer, poke a hole through bottom of paper liner. Insert tip through hole; pipe filling into eight cupcakes. Repeat with remaining fillings and cupcakes.
• For ganache, place chocolates in separate small bowls. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour 1/2 cup cream over bittersweet chocolate; pour remaining cream over white chocolate. Stir mixtures with a whisk until smooth.
• Stir 2 teaspoons corn syrup into bittersweet ganache and 1/2 teaspoon corn syrup into white ganache. Cool bittersweet ganache 10 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Tint white ganache as desired; refrigerate, covered, until thickened.
• Dip tops of cupcakes in bittersweet ganache. Pipe designs using white or tinted ganache. Refrigerate until set. Store in airtight containers in the refrigerator.

 

 

Editor's Note

• To fill a cupcake, insert tip of pastry bag into bottom of cupcake; squeeze bag gently to fill. Cupcake will be filled when top expands slightly.
• To quickly frost cupcakes, place bittersweet ganache in a shallow bowl. Dip top of each cupcake into ganache, twisting slightly before lifting.

 

 

Nutrition Facts 

1 cupcake: 285 calories, 18g fat (7g saturated fat), 64mg cholesterol, 182mg sodium, 31g carbohydrate (21g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g protein.