Dessert

Chocolate Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting

This is a really moist chocolate cake recipe, topped with the best cream cheese frosting. Make this for birthdays and special treats and you'll love it.

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A super moist chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.
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I missed last months Secret Recipe Club and missed the camaraderie that rolls along with it. The club is huge and bloggers are assigned another blog to choose a recipe from but you don't know who has your blog until reveal day.Now it's March and I'm back with a post from the blog, From Chapel Hill to Chickenville. Aimee is the chief of this blog along with taking care of her family, homeschooling and in her words, "being a chicken chasing Mom" hence the name which comes from the chickens they have in their backyard. Aimee has a wide selection of recipes but I was drawn to the desserts strangely enough....not, that's where I'll always head first. I picked her chocolate buttermilk cupcakes with cream cheese frosting probably because that's my favorite frosting and chocolate cake is a given, especially if it has buttermilk in it!

A super moist chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.

 

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Recipe

A super moist chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.

Course:
Dessert
COOKing TIME:
20 minutes
Total TIME:
55 minutes
CUISINE:
American
PREP TIME:
35 minutes
SERVINGS:
12

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

  • 3/4 cup AP flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 6 Tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 Tbsp melted butter
  • 6 Tbsp buttermilk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg white

For the frosting:

  • 1 pkg cream cheese
  • 1 1/2 c powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Ingredient Swaps

Instructions

For the cupcakes:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line a 12 count muffin pan with liners.
  3. In a large bowl mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
  4. In a bowl of an electric mixer mix together the cocoa powder and 3 Tbsp of hot water until a thick paste forms.
  5. Add buttermilk, butter, egg and egg white making sure to scrape down half way through.
  6. Add the flour mixture and mix until smooth.
  7. Scoop into the muffin pans and bake for about 20 minutes.

For the frosting:

  1. Beat the cream cheese until fluffy and then mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla, starting slowly!
  2. Frost the cooled cupcakes.
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