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Easy Cotton Candy Cupcakes
Easy cotton candy cupcakes recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft and moist devil's food chocolate cupcakes are decorated with vanilla buttercream icing and fluffy pink and blue cotton candy.
👥 12 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 40 min⏳ Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 20 min👤 Abeer Rizvi📖 cakewhiz
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- spatula
📝 Preparation Steps
1
In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt. This will be the flour mixture. Keep aside.
2
In a large mixing bowl, add cocoa powder, espresso powder, brown sugar, water and mix until smooth. This will be the chocolate liquid mixture.
Espresso powder1 tspWater (Hot)1 cup
3
In another mixing bowl, cream together butter, granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
4
Add vanilla extract, almond extract and eggs and mix until smooth.
Vanilla extract1.5 tspEggs (Large, Room temperature)2
5
Add half the flour mixture and half the chocolate liquid mixture and mix until partially combined.
6
Add the remaining flour mixture and remaining chocolate liquid mixture and mix batter until just combined. Don't over-mind. A few lumps in the batter are perfectly fine.
7
Pour batter in 12 cupcake liners and bake at 350 degrees F for ⏱️ 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick in the center comes out clean.
8
Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.
9
While the cupcakes are baking and cooling, prepare the frosting.
10
Use a spatula to ice each cupcake.
11
Just prior to serving, tear apart the pink and blue cotton candy and stick that on top of each iced cupcake. Enjoy.
Cotton candy (Pink and blue)4 cups
Nutrition Facts
calories
386 kcal
fat Content
15 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
2 g
sugar Content
45 g
sodium Content
240 mg
protein Content
3 g
trans Fat Content
0.3 g
cholesterol Content
48 mg
carbohydrate Content
61 g
saturated Fat Content
7 g
unsaturated Fat Content
8 g
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