The Core Of Happiness

For Christmas, Lauren gave me a cupcake corer.

As my first experiment I wanted to make

Chocolate cupcakes with filling.

I filled the muffin tin with paper cups.

Using a chocolate cake mix, I made 12 cupcakes.

Once they were cooked

and cooled,

I used my brand new

"Cupcake Plunger"

You can find the corer HERE 

Look what the corer does to your cupcakes.

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Recipe for the filling:

6 Tablespoon butter. softened

1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

3/4 cup Marshmallow Cream

1 1/2 Tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon heavy cream

Mixing these ingredients together well,

 and using a pastry bag

or zip loc bag, fill each cupcake.

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Here is the recipe for frosting I used:

1/4 cup heavy cream

4 ounces bittersweet chocolate finely chopped

1 Tablespoon butter, softened.

Heat the cream in a saucepan till steaming.

Add the chocolate and let stand for 5 minutes.

Add the butter and stir till smooth.

Spread the top of each cupcake with frosting.

Decorate the top with remaining marshmallow filling.

Place in fridge for 10 min till set.

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I found this cupcake carrier at Target.

Lauren & Josh received this first patch of cupcakes.

I have plans for more,  using raspberry filling,

lemon curd, custard....

Stay tuned!

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Thank you.

Thank you for stopping by during your busy day.

Thank you for the comments and emails.

Love you beyond the Marshmallow Cream.

Me