Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes



Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes


Cafe Latte in St. Paul makes all kinds of fablous food. They have many delicious cakes, one that they are famous for is the Chocolate Turtle Cake. It has coffee as an ingredient and I always think that coffee helps to intensify the chocolate flavor. I recreated it home, using the finest choclate and my homemade caramel. It is very easy to make. I then frost and freeze the cupcakes for the future.

Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes Topped with Sea Salt

Cake Ingredients:

Toasted Pecans

• 1 Egg
• 2/3 cup Vegetable oil
• 1 cup Buttermilk
• 2 cups Cake Flour
• 1 3/4 cups Sugar
• 1/2 cup Good quality cocoa
• 1 tsp. Salt
• 1 tbsp. Baking soda
• 1 cup Hot coffee

Directions:

Baked Chocolate Cupcakes

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners
• In bowl, combine egg, oil and buttermilk
• In large separate bowl, mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and baking soda
• Gradually add wet ingredients to dry until well mixed
• Gradually add hot coffee
• Scrape batter into prepared cupcake liners
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
• Let cake rest in pans for 10 minutes
• Turn out onto wire racks to cool
• Frost with Chocolate Frosting
• Drizzle with Caramel
• Top with toasted Pecans
• Sprinkle with a touch of sea salt

Chocolate Frosting

Ingredients:

Chocolate Frosting

• 1/2 cup Half and Half
• 1 cup Sugar
• 6 tbsp. Butter
• 2 cups Good-quality semisweet chocolate chips
• 3/4 cup Caramel
• 1 1/2 cups Toasted pecans

Directions:

• Mix sugar and half and half in saucepan
• Add butter
• Bring to a boil
• Remove from heat
• Add chocolate chips to pan
• Using wire whisk, mix until smooth
• If frosting is too thick or grainy, add 1 or 2 teaspoons hot coffee