Chocolate Mint Cupcakes for Babyshower
Chocolate cupcakes, two toned buttercream frosting made with real mint leaves and topped with these cute little blue feet sweeties!
Monday blues
It´s Monday the start of a new week and I have a million things to do and I hope to do them all well.. We all know the feeling of overwhelment.. Being a good wife, mother, building my business, being there for my family & friends, treating others with kindness.. I´ve learnt along the way to do everything I can to the best of my ability, 1 task at a time and to enjoy the journey along the way.. the truth is I´m not God so I´m not perfect.. but I strive to be the best I can be..
It´s a Boy!
Today´s recipe is cupcakes I made over a week ago for a friend´s babyshower, for her unborn baby boy, who will be here in the next couple of weeks however I decided to post the recjpe for the Dark Chocolate Shirt Cake before.
These cupcakes are chocolate flavoured and the frosting was made with mint leaves to create a chocolate & mint flavoured cupcake! One of my favourite flavour combos ever!
Ingredients
- 140g flour
- 60g cocoa powder
- 200g white sugar
- 1 cup sunflower oil
- 4 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 full cream milk
- 1 & 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250g butter without salt at room temperature
- 2 heaped tablespoons of full cream cheese
- 350g of icing sugar
- pinch of salt
- a bunch of mint leaves
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 175ºC / 350ºF and line your cupcake tray with the cupcake liners.
- used these cute green and turquoise liners to match the babyshower theme.
- Sift all your dry ingredients together and leave to one side.
- Mix your oil and sugar in your stand mixer until well blended.
- Add your eggs 1 x 1 and your vanilla extract.
- Add your dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated, Lastly add your milk.
- Pour your batter into your liners until just over the halfway mark and bake them for 20-25 minutes. Leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tray before taking out, place on a cooling rack and cool completely before frosting.
- Heat up your milk until just boiling in a saucepan, add your whole mint leaves and allow to infuse and cool to one side.
- In your stand mixer (or hand mixer) mix your butter & cream cheese until soft, add your sifted icing sugar and pinch of salt.
- Strain the milk from the mint leaves and add the cooled milk to your mixture.
- Lastly add your vanilla extract.
- Mix well on high for 5 minutes.
- Leave to cool in the piping bag in the fridge until ready to frost.
- I added some turquoise gel colourant to the inside of my piping bag (use an ear bud to add four lines - spaced out equally - down the inside of the piping bag to create this two tone coloured swirl.
I´ve come to appreciate natural ingredients and I try to use them as far as I can instead of artificial flavours, hence the reason for my experiment with the mint leaves. Result: some people could clearly taste the mint and others not.. solution: you could infuse your milk and mint mixture slightly longer or add more leaves, add melted mint chocolate to your frosting (this would however change the colour) or simply add a bit of artificial mint colour..
I added some turquoise gel colourant to the inside of my piping bag (use an ear bud to add four lines – spaced out equally – down the inside of the piping bag to create this two tone coloured swirl.
I hope you guys liked this post!
Johlene
xoxo
Some of the CUTEST cupcakes I’ve ever seen!!!
Yayyyyy for using real mint-that’s how you can spot a talented baker! Seriously though, these look absolutely mouthwatering. We don’t do sweets much in my house, so when we do indulge, they have to be delicious. I wonder if I’d be able to swap out the flour for an all purpose gluten-free flour? Thanks so much for sharing! <3
Hi Savannah! Yes you can defitinitely use all purpose gluten free flour. Let me know how they turned out ok!? 🙂
Your cupcakes, as always, are beautiful! I can’t wait to see your next post – I hope it works out for you. I often feel overwhelmed too, but like you, I just do the best I can.
Thanks Laura! New post already up, I think it happened about the same time you commented here..lol
Happy weekend! xoxo
Oh my goodness…these are sooo cute!!!!
Hey Ashley! I´m glad you like them! Hope you´re having a good weekend.. xoxo
que bonitos Johlenne son ideales 🙂
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Muchas gracias Regla 🙂 Feliz finde! xoxo
Mine, mine, these were mine!!!! :)))) Thank you again my friend for all your work and effort of making these cupcakes and other things so beautiful and delicious for our baby!!! He’s lucky to have such an auntie!!!
Yeah they were yours 😉 Can´t wait to see him!! I´m glad you enjoyed it!! xoxo
Aww these cupcakes look adorable! And I really really like your new banner ; )
Thanks Consuelo 🙂 I love the little blue feet.. wish it was me pregnant again..
ps. I´m glad you like the banner, it was much easier to make than I thought it would be..lol
Son preciosos!
La combinación de menta y chocolate me parece realmente deliciosa.
Qué tengas una feliz semana. Un beso ♥
Qué preciosos! Los piececitos
Gracias Noemí!! A mi también me gusta mucho la menta y el chocolate juntos.. Feliz semana!! Un besito xoxo
Qué bonitos, da pena comerlos!! Aunque tienen que estar riquísimos, qué bien te han quedado!!
Un abrazo
Hace tiempo! Muchas gracias! Feliz semana! Besitos xoxo
Hola! te quedaron preciosos, los piececines les da un toque genial! muchas gracias por la receta! besis
Muchas gracias!! A mi me gusta también los piececines! Un besito xoxo
Johlene, pero qué artista eres. Qué bonitos. Un besico y que pases una buena semana.
¡¡Gracias Tatiana!! Una semana llena de felicidad para ti también 🙂 Un besito xoxo
I love these cupcakes Johlene! I love the frosting – so pretty with the blue swirl and I love that you added mint! What a nice touch!
Thanks Kristi!! I love mint with chocolate, probably one of my top flavour combinations 🙂 Happy week!! xoxo
Love that you used real mint! The best mint ice cream I’ve ever made was made by infusing milk and cream with real mint. So I bet these were outrageously good!
Me too so much better than artificial flavouring, the trick is to know how much to add.. I´m still learning 😉 Have a gr8888 week! xoxo