Cream-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

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Prep Time:
30 mins
Total Time:
1 hrs 45 mins
Yield:
12

These cupcakes will bring back fond memories of sweets Mom used to make.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for muffin tins

  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for muffin tins

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon baking soda

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 3 large eggs, room temperature

  • 1 cup sour cream, room temperature

  • 1 ½ cups marshmallow creme (7.5-ounce jar)

  • ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 6-cup (each with a 1-cup capacity) jumbo muffin pans; dust with cocoa powder to coat, tapping out excess. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa, flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.

  2. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. On low speed, add half the flour mixture, followed by sour cream, ending with remaining flour mixture; mix just until incorporated (do not overmix).

  3. Divide batter among prepared muffin cups. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking. Cool in pans, 5 minutes; remove cupcakes and cool, right side up, on a wire rack.

  4. Meanwhile, prepare filling: In a medium bowl, whisk marshmallow creme and butter until smooth. Chill until slightly firm, 15 to 30 minutes. Transfer mixture to a heavy-duty resealable plastic bag, and seal; cut off one corner of the bag to make a 1/8-inch opening.

  5. Using a small melon baller, scoop out center of each cupcake from the bottom, and reserve (you will use this to plug cupcake after filling). Hollow out each cupcake a bit more, discarding crumbs. Insert tip of plastic bag into each cavity, and squeeze to fill; replace plugs. Using remaining filling in plastic bag, decorate top of cupcakes.

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