Cafe mocha cupcakes also known as chocolate mocha cupcakes are one of the most amazing cupcake recipes ever. A rich homemade chocolate cupcake topped with mocha buttercream!
Cafe Mocha Cupcakes
These Cafe Mocha Cupcakes combine the AMAZING chocolate cupcake recipe with the amazing Mocha Buttercream frosting for one of the most amazing cupcakes you will ever put in your mouth! Really we all know that nothing beats chocolate and nothing beats coffee so when we put them together they are AMAZING!
A fun fact for you guys is that I started working at the bakery that made my wedding cake a year after we got married! Which is also a fun story because I originally thought when I was going to pick out the cake that I would go with some sort of a vanilla flavor to satisfy more people.
But as soon as I started tasting the chocolate flavors I just knew that I was going to have a chocolate wedding cake. My favorite flavor was the chocolate raspberry combination which be on the look out for that AMAZING cupcake recipe that is coming soon! But anywho my husband’s favorite was the mocha and thankfully we had a tiered cake so we both got what we wanted 😉
This is great for you guys because of the fact that I can share my take on the recipes that I had to make for that bakery. Be sure to check out my twist on a classic cake that I learned while working at the bakery.
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Cafe Mocha Cupcakes Supplies
Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes Ingredients
- 24 chocolate cupcakes
- 1 batch of Mocha Buttercream Frosting
Chocolate Mocha Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- butter at room temperature
- powdered sugar
- cocoa powder
- heavy cream
- vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- instant coffee
Chocolate cupcakes ingredients
- hot brewed coffee
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- all purpose flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- salt
- room temperature butter
- brown sugar
- granulated white sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
How to Make Chocolate Cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 350˚ F.
Put paper cupcake liners in your cupcake pans or you can use silicone, which ever ones you prefer.
In a medium bowl whisk together the hot brewed coffee and cocoa, until dissolved and set aside.
In the bowl for your stand mixer, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Then add the butter and sugars.
Beat on medium-high speed of your mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla.
With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients in three additions alternating with the coffee-cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
Mix each addition just until incorporated, being careful not to over mix.
Divide the batter between the prepared liners, filling each about two-thirds of the way full.
Bake about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool in the pans briefly, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to Make Mocha Buttercream Frosting
In the bowl of the mixer beat the butter on medium speed until nice and creamy.
Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting and slowly incorporate the powdered sugar and cocoa powder into the butter.
Once you have added all the sugar to the mix add the heavy cream, vanilla, salt and instant coffee powder.
Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
Assembling Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes
If you are using a disposable pastry bag start off by cutting the tip off you bag wide enough to fit your piping tip in the hole.
Place your piping tip into your pastry bag.
Fill the pastry bag with your mocha buttercream, making sure you do not overfill the bag.
Swirl the buttercream onto each chocolate cupcake by starting in the middle then swirling the tip around the whole top cupcake.
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Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes
Ingredients
Chocolate Mocha Cupcake Ingredients
- Chocolate cupcakes
- Mocha Buttercream Frosting
Mocha frosting ingredients
- 1.5 cups butter at room temperature
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3/4 cups cocoa powder
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- 3 teaspoons instant coffee
Chocolate cupcakes ingredients
- 1.5 cups hot brewed coffee
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoon room temperature butter
- 1/5 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
How to make chocolate cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 350˚ F.
- Put paper cupcake liners in your cupcake pans or you can use silicone, which ever ones you prefer.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the hot brewed coffee and cocoa, until dissolved and set aside.
- In the bowl for your stand mixer, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Then add the butter and sugars.
- Beat on medium-high speed of your mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla.
- With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients in three additions alternating with the coffee-cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
- Mix each addition just until incorporated, being careful not to over mix.
- Divide the batter between the prepared liners, filling each about two-thirds of the way full.
- Bake about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let cool in the pans briefly, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to Make Mocha frosting
- In the bowl of the mixer beat the butter on medium speed until nice and creamy.
- Turn the mixer down to the lowest setting and slowly incorporate the powdered sugar and cocoa powder into the butter.
- Once you have added all the sugar to the mix add the heavy cream, vanilla, salt and instant coffee powder. Turn the mixer up to medium-high speed and continue mixing for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
How to Make Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes
- If you are using a disposable pastry bag start off by cutting the tip off you bag wide enough to fit your piping tip in the hole.
- Place your piping tip into your pastry bag.
- Fill the pastry bag with your mocha buttercream, making sure you do not overfill the bag.
- Swirl the buttercream onto each chocolate cupcake by starting in the middle then swirling the tip around the whole top cupcake.
Nutrition
18 Weight Watchers SmartPoints per cupcake.
Judy says
I can’t find the mocha cupcake recipe and the mocha chocolate frosting?? I’m 76 years old, but I still love to bake. I am new to all these sites and get very frustrated navigating through ads trying to find the printed recipes! Your chocolate bakery frosting is like the one my favorite aunt use to make and I could hardly wait until we were ready for desert! I love your site.
Stephanie says
https://www.midgetmomma.com/chocolate-cupcake-recipe/
https://www.midgetmomma.com/mocha-buttercream-frosting/
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