How To Make Mint And Chocolate Cupcakes

Cupcakes are in fashion. They are easy to make and are very attractive for any event, snack or breakfast. They have a delicious taste and nice games of colors. For this reason, you will love trying these chocolate mint cupcakes. An explosive blend of flavor that you cannot miss.

A delicious mix: mint and chocolate

Sweetness with a touch of freshness. Combining these two elements will give you an enriching stimulus to your palate that you cannot resist. In addition, mint provides many benefits such as:

• It is digestive and sedative.
• Improves digestions.
• Regulate the tension.
• Helps reduce nausea.
• Clear the airways.

In addition to all this, it offers a wonderful refreshing flavor to combine in salads, make infusions and of course, make desserts.

Big bakers often take advantage of its original flavor to make chocolate a more original texture, where the sweet is not so sweet, but something more intense and above all, fresh. If you are passionate about these two elements, take note of the following recipe for mint and chocolate cupcakes:

Mint and chocolate cupcakes recipe

What I need?

With these ingredients, you will get eight delicious cupcakes:

• 125 grams of butter
• 125 grams of sugar
•  1 egg
• 100 grams cake flour
• 75 grams of cocoa powder
• Half a teaspoon of vanilla essence
• Half a teaspoon of yeast.

These are the ingredients for the topping or frosting :

• 100 grams of cheese spread
• 4 mint leaves and 5 drops of eucalyptus essence
• 100 grams of butter
• A few drops of green food coloring
• 100 grams of icing sugar

How do I prepare it?

It is very easy, we will start by preheating the oven to 180 ° C.  While it is heating up, we put the butter in a bowl or a bowl, adding half a teaspoon of vanilla essence, and the 125 grams of sugar, in order to mix it and obtain a very fine mass we will use the blender. Once ready, add the egg -with its yolk- and continue beating the mixture.

Next, sift the 100 grams of cake flour to make it finer. Then do the same with the cocoa powder and half a teaspoon of baking powder. Once the ingredients have been sifted, add them to the previous mixture and stir well. Very simple as you can see!

Then go preparing the cupcake molds. Remember that there are 8. Distribute the dough well for them and take them to the oven for about 20 minutes. Go checking them, and when you see that they rise and are well set, we remove them from the oven and let them cool. You already have half of your delicious mint and chocolate cupcakes ready.

How do we prepare the coverage?

You will need a bowl or a slightly deeper container. Add the cheese, the 100 grams of icing sugar and the 100 grams of butter. Again, use the mixer to obtain a very fine mixture.

The next thing you have to do is chop the mint leaves well  and drop them in this preparation along with the drops of eucalyptus. Mix well, while at the same time, include the two or three drops of green food coloring.

Now you just have to spread the top of the cupcakes with the mint frosting. Finish decorating with some whole mint leaves and a few pieces or shavings of black and white chocolate. Delicious!