Hidden Heart Chocolate Cupcakes are the perfect chocolate dessert to make your loved ones. The chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting has hidden red velvet cake hearts inside.
Show your love this Valentine’s Day by making your family a delicious dessert. You could make Conversation Heart Cake Pops or Valentine’s Day Vanilla Cupcakes. But if they are chocolate lovers, then you need to make Hidden Heart Chocolate Cupcakes. Each chocolate cupcake has a hidden red velvet cake heart inside. The cupcakes are covered in chocolate frosting and topped with a heart sprinkle. Hidden Heart Chocolate Cupcakes are the perfect Valentine’s Day chocolate dessert.
Hidden Heart Chocolate Cupcakes
Author: Sugar, Spice and Family Life
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 30
Ingredients
Red Velvet Hearts
- Pre-made red velvet cake
- Heart cutter
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1¾ cup flour
- 1½ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1½ tsp. baking soda
- 1½ tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 1 cup hot coffee
Chocolate Frosting
- 3½ cups confectioners' sugar
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Decoration
- Large Heart sprinkles
Instructions
Red Velvet Hearts
- Using a heart cookie cutter, cut out 30 hearts out of the pre-made red velvet cake. Set aside.
Chocolate Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cupcake tins with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add eggs, milk, vanilla extract and butter. Mix with an electric mixer mix for 2 minutes. Then hand stir in the coffee.
- Pour the batter into each cupcake liner until the bottoms are covered. Place a red velvet heart into each cupcake liner and fill with batter until ⅔ full.
- Bake for 22 minutes, or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in pans for 5 minutes and then place cupcakes onto wire racks to cool completely.
Chocolate Frosting
- In a bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and cocoa powder. Set aside.
- In a bowl, cream butter. Gradually beat in sugar mixture, milk and vanilla. Mix until fluffy.
- Spread or pipe frosting onto the cupcakes.
Decoration
- Top each frosted cupcakes with a large heart sprinkle.
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These are just the cutest cupcakes I have ever seen! I SO want to make them for my kids’ Valentine’s Day parties. 🙂 Thanks for the tutorial! …your photos are gorgeous, btw!
These are awesome! Pinning!
These are so cute! and they sound delicious too x
I just pinned your special cupcakes, they are fantastic!
Aww these look adorable! I MUST make a vegan version of this!! So cute. (bookmarked for next Valentine’s Day, lol)
*Maisy
These are beautiful and look delicious! Featuring when my party opens up tonight. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! 🙂
These are SO cute!