Make  Chocolate Cupcakes For Easter

Tonight I made some desserts for my big Easter dinner tomorrow night. I was fooling around with a recipe I’ve had for a long time for a chocolate mocha cake. I had some extra batter, so I made some cupcakes, too. Oh my goodness. I tasted one of those cupcakes and it was pure heaven, folks.  I can hardly wait to taste the mocha cake tomorrow!  Here’s how I did it:

Yummiest Chocolate Cupcakes Ever I started with two  Duncan Hines Chocolate Devil’s food cake mixes. Follow the directions on the boxes with these modifications:

1. Secret number one is to make some really strong coffee and use it instead of water. (Let it cool down before adding to your cake, though.)
2. Secret number two is to add 3 tablespoons of  instant coffee crystals  to the coffee before mixing it in the cake.
3. Secret number 3 is to mix your cake really well, at least 3 minutes. (I learned this in cake decorating classes years ago.)
4. Secret number 3 is to chop up 1 cup chocolate chips really fine. Stir them into the batter before pouring into pans.

I used 2 mixes  because I’m making a 3 layer cake, and I used the leftover batter for a dozen  cupcakes. For icing I used the generic milk chocolate brand.  I’m tellin’ ya…………the cupcake  was out of this world!  The whole thing only took me about 10 min to mix up.  I poured 1/4 of the batter into 3 different round layer cake pans and used the last 1/4 of the batter for the cupcakes.  It worked out perfect!  (Fill your layer pans a little under a half full.)

Easter Chocolate Mocha Cake

I’ll go ahead and tell you how I’m going to fix the big cake.  I am going to make a syrup of a few Tbsps of water and instant coffee crystals, and mix in a few Tbsps. of cocoa. I’ll log back in with proportions after I do it. Anyway, I am planning to mix this with cool whip and put between the layers. (Make sure your cake is cool before doing this.)  I am going to heat up  the rest of my generic brand milk chocolate icing in the microwave until it is soft and thin, (about30 seconds or so),  and spread it on top and let it drip down the sides.  Then I will dust the top with chopped pecans and viola!  My super easy decadent delicious chocolate mocha cake. Happy Easter!