Recipes Made with Cake Mixes

Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes with
Wisconsin Mascarpone Cheese

Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes

Yield: 24 cupcakes

Ingredients

Filling

  • 8 ounces Mascarpone cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter chips

Cupcakes

  • 1 (18.25 ounce) box dark chocolate or devil's food cake mix*
  • Ingredients listed for cake mix

Frosting**

  • 4 ounces semisweet chocolate bar, broken into chunks
  • 1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon sour cream
  • Purchased white frosting with decorating tip

Instructions

Filling

  1. In a medium bowl, combine mascarpone cheese and sugar. Stir in chips. Set aside.

Cupcakes

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 medium muffin pans with paper liners.
  2. Follow directions on cake mix package. Fill each muffin liner 2/3 full.
  3. Drop heaping teaspoon of filling on top center of each cupcake.
  4. Bake according to cupcake directions on mix package, usually 23 to 25 minutes. (The batter will cover the mascarpone filling during baking.)
  5. Remove from oven. Allow cupcakes to sit in pans for 2 minutes.
  6. Remove cupcakes to rack and cool completely.

Frosting

  1. Place chocolate in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Cook at HIGH power 1 minute.
  2. Stir; continue cooking at high power 30 seconds. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.
  3. Immediately stir sour cream gradually into melted chocolate, mixing until smooth.
  4. Immediately spread over completely cooled cupcakes*; let stand until chocolate is set, about 15 minutes. Using white frosting with drawing tip, form squiggles across the cupcake frosting.
  5. Store covered at room temperature up to 2 days.

Notes

* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes. To compensate for the volume loss in a 16 ounce box, whisk 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the dry cake mix before proceeding with the recipe. To compensate for the volume loss in a 15.25 ounce box, add 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.

** If frosting becomes too stiff, microwave at HIGH power for 5 seconds to soften.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin



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