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Really Easy Velvety Rich Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

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Super easy rich velvety chocolate cupcakes made from 2 mixes! #recipes #cupcakes

Do you love baking homemade cupcakes but lack the time to do it from scratch? Well, I found a recipe that tastes like it took hours to prepare when prep time is more like minutes. Really!

This recipe could become YOUR cupcake recipe dream come true [it is mine!] You just combine a cake mix with pudding mix and add a couple of other ingredients. Get ready to taste the best, melt-in-your-mouth velvety rich chocolate cupcakes EVER!

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Velvety Chocolate Cupcakes

Instructions for making this as a layer cake: CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Ingredients

1 box chocolate cake mix
1 box [4 oz.] instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup canola oil
4 eggs
Garnish: chopped nuts, chocolate chips or sprinkles
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Directions

Preheat oven to 350°
Using 2 12-cupcake pans or one 24-cupcake pan, place cupcake liners in each hole.
Variation: use brewed coffee (cold) instead of water
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Combine all ingredients: cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water, oil and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
Mix for about 1 minute.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and resume mixing for another 2-3 minutes on LOW speed.
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Spoon batter into each cupcake tin – it will be thick.
Bake for 18-22 minutes.

Remove from oven and cool.

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Frost with chocolate frosting and decorate.
I used chocolate buttercream frosting and garnished them with walnuts, chocolate chips or colored sprinkles.
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Enjoy!

 

 



 

How To Make A Football Cake

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Is football your passion? Got an arm-chair quarterback (or a real one) in your household? If this describes you, you’ll want to include great eats on “football day.”

 

What will your menu include? Assorted appetizers, dips and chips and a kettle full of piping hot chili for a group? Or, are you snuggling down for a simple evening at home with some of pizza and wings?

 

Whatever your druthers, make it extra special and bake a football cake! The cake pictured below was designed for a little boy’s birthday but can so easily be adapted to top off any football celebration!

Not into baking cakes? Check out the Football Cupcakes (below) too!

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Three-layered Football Cake

How to Make a Football Cake

What You’ll Need
Football shaped cake pan
Two 9″ round cake pans
3 boxes cake mix
Frosting
Pastry bags for frosting
Decorator tips

Directions
Make three cakes according to package directions.
Remove cakes from pans and cool.
Frost the round layers with the same color frosting,placing one on top of the other with a thin layer of frosting in between.
In this photo, blue frosting was used.

Place the football shaped cake on top, carefully.
Frost it with chocolate frosting (video demo below)
Add piping and other directions.
Take a picture of your new work-of-art.
Serve and enjoy!

Here is a simple video demonstrating 
how to frost and decorate a football cake.
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Where to get them: Football Shaped Cake Pans 

Note: oval cake pans can also be used for Easter Egg Cakes

Here is another great football idea—-Football Cupcakes!

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Photo credits:
Football Birthday Cake by Samdogs on Flicker Creative Commons
Football Cupcakes taken by Noah Sussman on Flickr Creative Commons
author SInea