Deliciously moist chocolate cupcakes, made with a doctored up cake mix are topped with a gorgeous homemade coffee frosting and drizzled with Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce! Perfect for your chocolate coffee lovers!
I have my days living in southern california, 90% of the time I feel so blessed and lucky to have the surroundings I do but then some days, like when I think about it has only rained like twice in the last year ( and that is no exaggeration) I get sad we don't have seasons. I have always wanted to watch "the leaves change" in fact, one year I specifically booked my NYC trip around it, and did we see leaves change? The few days before we go there they were having record heat and then when we got there it dropped to snow!! Where did fall go? I missed it some how. Guess I'll have to plan another trip and try to catch it!! So for now I will just bask in the scorching hot sun!! OR stay inside with the AC on 😉
One of my favorite cakes ever is Coffee Cake, and not the American breakfast coffee cake, the English actual cake, no crumble, coffee flavored cake and coffee flavored frosting... cake.
I also, love my version with tons of heath bars.
When I was in Australia a few weeks ago we made my Nan's delicious coffee cake. I devoured it. Literally, I finished the cake off. Oops. Anyways, I got to thinking about how great the coffee flavored frosting was and wondered why I don't use coffee flavored frosting more often. So I did. With chocolate cake, and added some salted caramel for good measure. I mean what doesn't become better with salted caramel. If you're wondering, the answer is nothing. Salted caramel makes everything better. I took these to work and they were gone in no time. In fact, I went to have one (I already had one earlier) and there were none left. Imagine my disappointment!!
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Caramel Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes
Deliciously moist chocolate cupcakes, made with a doctored up cake mix are topped with a gorgeous homemade coffee frosting and drizzled with Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce! Perfect for your chocolate coffee lovers!
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 28 Cupcakes 1x
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1 box Chocolate cake mix
- 4 large eggs, at room temp.
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Frosting
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 2 tbsp hot water
- 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temp.
- 2 ½-3 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 4oz Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350F and line a cupcake pan with liners.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer combine cake mix, eggs, greek yogurt, milk, and oil until fully combined- but do not over mix. Fold in chocolate chips then pour batter into cupcake liners, filling ⅔rds full. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Let cool completely.
Frosting
- Once cupcakes are completely cool start frosting. In a cup add instant coffee and hot water, let sit in the fridge for 5 minutes to cool.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer beat butter for 3 minutes. Add powdered sugar, coffee, and heavy cream. Beat on low until powdered sugar is combined then beat on high for 4minutes.
- Pipe on to completely cooled cupcakes and drizzle salted caramel on top.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: chocolate coffee recipes, easy cupcake recipe
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says
Actual coffee CAKE? My brain exploded. (Go figure -- Americans are so used to the crumbly thing that we can't even decipher that there could be a coffee flavored cake!)
And salted caramel is ALWAYS for good measure 😉
Baby June says
Those look AMAZING! All that caramel, mmm. 🙂
Elizabeth says
Thanks, more caramel the better 😉 LOL
Kelly @ Hidden Fruits And Veggies says
Seasons are overrated. Here in Michigan, we just finally emerged from winter. It's friggen MAY! Not cool (well, actually, verrrrrrry cool. Cold, in fact). I didnt know that Americans were coffee caking wrong, but clearly we are. Coffee flavored frosting >>> streusel topping any day of the week.
Lindsey @ American Heritage Cooking says
I almost felt badly about your lack of seasons and then I remember that when Atlanta was shut down for a week because of ice it was probably 70 degrees and sunny! 😉 Anywho...these cupcakes will fix any sadness in a jiffy!! They look amazing! And that drizzle...oh help me!
Ashley says
That coffee frosting sounds heavenly! As do the cupcakes but I really want the frosting! haha : ) The fall is my favorite time here on the east coast - you'll have to plan a trip to get to be here during it at some point!!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
I hated living in AZ for that reason - and it's funny that Nor Cal is so different that southern CA!! I mean, I get why, but still. 🙂
LOVE these cupcakes!