Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

A simple tray of chocolate cupcakes is almost always appropriate, especially with a thick, rich batter:

This particular batter resembled a traditional cake batter, until the sour cream...

was swirled in and made it richer and lighter:

To complement the rich cake, I made a rich buttercream consisting of confectioners sugar sifted with cocoa:

Which was then blended with butter and vanilla before melted chocolate was added:

As I recently purchased a new pastry tube, I had lots of fun with the decorations!

4 comments:

  1. I love baking with sour cream, buttermilk or yogurt. They just make everything taste better.

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  2. They really do! If I'm debating between two or three recipes one that has one of those ingredients always wins!

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  3. They sound wonderful. I love the addition of sour cream into baked good, specially cupcakes!

    Lisa@ The Cutting Edge of Ordinary

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  4. It has really become a pantry staple for me...speaking of which, I'm out!

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