Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

 

Chocolate Cupcake, Cream Cheese filling with Cream Cheese frosting

Chocolate Cupcake, Chocolate Cream Cheese filling with Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting

Today just seemed like a chocolate cupcake day.  I truly do love baking these little bits of goodness.  And, they are incredibly easy to pull together.

Choosing the filling and frosting was a bit problematic today since I had so many choices.  My life partner made a request for crab apple filling (we found some crab apple jam at a nearby market this summer - score!).  I cored and filled five cupcakes with this amazing yumminess.  Side note: I was looking for fresh cherries this morning for a cherry chocolate combination - no such luck.

 

A friend suggested cream cheese filling.  Oh yes.  That's the ticket.  I've planned a chocolate and cream cheese cake for next week, but it sounded perfect for today's cupcakes.  Bonus: I had an unopened container of chocolate cream cheese as well. 

I cored and filled one dozen cupcakes with a cream cheese and vanilla buttercream filling.  So decadent.  I practiced this smooth swirl using my Wilton 1A piping tip.  I love the little tip at the top of each swirl - somehow I managed to make the icing consistency just right.  Anyway, chocolate and cream cheese go together.

Another dozen cupcakes were cored and filled with a chocolate cream cheese filling and frosted with a chocolate cream cheese buttercream frosting.  I tasted a bit of the icing ... it was as good as it sounded.  Yikes!



Putting the cupcakes back on a tray headed for the cake refrigerator.

Baking these cupcakes was just right.  I do love messing around with buttercream and switching up the flavor profile.  Also, it's fun to decorate little cakes.

Side note:  Photographing food, especially cupcakes and cake, must be a specialty!  I need a food stylist and some photography lessons and probably something else I don't know about.  I took a sries of pictures moving this silk rose around.  To me, they all look a bit....not right?  I'm not using them on the blog, but included them here to share my food stylists shortcomings.

I'm not sure, but I think this is as close as I can get to photographing a chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting.