Black Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Webs
The weather here is deceptively warm yet, it’s too cold to go into the water anymore which only reminds me that summer is really gone *sigh* #firstworldproblems so when my neighbor approached me this weekend with a fun halloween project, I jumped at the chance to whip up these velvet cupcakes with a spooky halloween spin but they’re still moist little cakes crowned with the glory of fluffy cream cheese frosting. It served as a delicious token telling me that the best holidays are just around the corner and you already know I could eat this frosting by the spoon bucketful!
- 1½ c unbleached flour
- 1 ts baking powder
- ¼ ts fine salt
- 2 tb black or natural cocoa
- ½ c oil
- 1 c sugar
- 2 ts lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
- 2 room temperature eggs
- ½ c room temperature buttermilk
- 1 ts vanilla extract
- Black gel color*
- 16 oz soft cream cheese
- 2-3 c *sifted* confectioners sugar
- 1 ts pure vanilla
- 1 tb heavy cream {optional}
- ¼ ts fine salt
- Melted chocolate for webs
- In the first bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa together. Set aside.
- In the second bowl, blend the oil and sugar.
- Add the lemon/vinegar.
- Whisk the eggs, milk, and vanilla.
- In 3 separate but quick additions, stir in the first bowl of dry ingredients into the second bowl. Do not over mix.
- Lastly, tin the batter to your liking.
- Bake at 350 for 16-18 minutes. Do not over bake.
- For the frosting, break up the cream cheese and slowly blend in the sugar.
- Add the vanilla and cream, if using} and salt. Whip until fluffy.
- Please refer to video to recreate the chocolate webs.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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wow Angela, these cupcakes look amazing..and the chocolate webs are so cool!
They look so delicious and lovely Angie! Thank you and have a lovely day and week!
Love.
Les.
Red velvet is my absolute fave. Those webs are so fun!
We don’t celebrate Halloween here, but when I saw your cupcakes I knew Halloween was approaching… Beautiful!
Aww!! These are so cute!! What a fun, seasonal recipe!! Kids will love them! …okay, who am I kidding, everyone will love em!!
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CUPCAKES! enough said..
I adore all the Halloween cooking & these would have to be top of my list… Angie, they’re adorable.
Awww…I love the idea but I may not be able to wait until Halloween without finishing these off. They look sooo yummy!!!
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Those cupcakes are too cute for words.
Love the twist on a red velvet!The black is perfect for Halloween. I know you used natural cocoa but love the idea of charcoal powder. Lately been seeing it everywhere especially in japanese desserts and even burger buns! Supposedly really healthy too! Thanks for the idea, and you look lovely in the video x
These cupcakes are so so adorable! I love how fun you decorated them, they’re so festive and perfect for Halloween
These cupcakes are so cute and what a fun Halloween treat!!
These are so adorably festive!!
lol, Brain!
Thank you very much, Les. I hope you’re staying dry where you are—been raining here hard all day.
I think I could enjoy a few of these! PS netgear firewall is blocking something on your Site
I’m so missing summer, but these adorably spooky cupcakes will almost make me forget it’s yucky outside!