Recipe for Alpocalypse Cupcakes by Dawn’s Recipes

We’ve outlined all the ingredients and directions for you to make the perfect Alpocalypse Cupcakes. This dish qualifies as a Intermediate level recipe. It should take you about 1 hr 20 min to make this recipe. The Alpocalypse Cupcakes recipe should make enough food for 24 cupcakes.

You can add your own personal twist to this Alpocalypse Cupcakes recipe, depending on your culture or family tradition. Don’t be scared to add other ingredients once you’ve gotten comfortable with the recipe! Please see below for a list of potential bakeware items that might be necessary for this Alpocalypse Cupcakes recipe.

Ingredients for Alpocalypse Cupcakes

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cake flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 tablespoon espresso powder
• Chocolate Chipotle Truffle Filling, recipe follows
• Chocolate Buttercream, recipe follows
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon chipotle powder
• 1 pound unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder, such as Valrhona
• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions for Alpocalypse Cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line cupcake or muffin pans with 24 cupcake liners.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, combine the buttermilk, oil, vanilla and eggs. In a separate bowl, sift the granulated sugar, flours, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
3. Mix the hot water and espresso powder in a pitcher, and slowly stir into the mixing bowl. Fill the cupcake liners and bake for 20 minutes, rotating halfway through. Remove from the oven and cool completely before frosting.
4. Fill the cupcakes with Chocolate Chipotle Truffle Filling. Frost with Chocolate Buttercream.
5. Heat the cream until simmering over medium heat. Place the semisweet chips in a glass bowl and pour the hot cream onto the chips. Allow to sit for a minimum of 2 minutes. Transfer the chocolate cream mixture to a stand mixer outfitted with the whisk attachment. Add in the chipotle powder. Whisk on medium speed until light and fluffy.
6. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip the butter and cocoa until incorporated. Slowly add in the powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream and vanilla. Whip until fluffy.

Bakeware for your recipe

You will find below are bakeware items that could be needed for this Alpocalypse Cupcakes recipe or similar recipes. Feel free to skip to the next item if it doesn’t apply.

• Cooking pots
• Frying pan
• Steamers
• Colander
• Skillet
• Knives
• Cutting board
• Grater
• Saucepan
• Stockpot
• Spatula
• Tongs
• Measuring cups
• Wooden Spoon

Categories in this Recipe

• Chocolate Cupcake
• Cupcake – A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
• Baking – Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked. Heat is gradually transferred “from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their center. As heat travels through, it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods and more with a firm dry crust and a softer center”. Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other. Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.Because of historical social and familial roles, baking has traditionally been performed at home by women for day-to-day meals and by men in bakeries and restaurants for local consumption. When production was industrialized, baking was automated by machines in large factories. The art of baking remains a fundamental skill and is important for nutrition, as baked goods, especially breads, are a common and important food, both from an economic and cultural point of view. A person who prepares baked goods as a profession is called a baker. On a related note, a pastry chef is someone who is trained in the art of making pastries, desserts, bread and other baked goods.
• Dessert – Dessert (/dɪˈzɜːrt/) is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Central Africa and West Africa, and most parts of China, there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.The term dessert can apply to many confections, such as biscuits, cakes, cookies, custards, gelatins, ice creams, pastries, pies, puddings, macaroons, sweet soups, tarts and fruit salad. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its naturally occurring sweetness. Some cultures sweeten foods that are more commonly savory to create desserts.