Recipes Made with Cake Mixes
Surprise Chocolate Cupcakes with
Wisconsin Mascarpone Cheese
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
- In a medium bowl, combine mascarpone cheese and sugar. Stir in chips. Set aside.
Cupcakes
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 24 medium muffin pans with paper liners.
- Follow directions on cake mix package. Fill each muffin liner 2/3 full.
- Drop heaping teaspoon of filling on top center of each cupcake.
- Bake according to cupcake directions on mix package, usually 23 to 25 minutes. (The batter will cover the mascarpone filling during baking.)
- Remove from oven. Allow cupcakes to sit in pans for 2 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes to rack and cool completely.
Frosting
- Place chocolate in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Cook at HIGH power 1 minute.
- Stir; continue cooking at high power 30 seconds. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.
- Immediately stir sour cream gradually into melted chocolate, mixing until smooth.
- 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.
- 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* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes.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