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Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Fluffy Frosting
Filed under dessert - cakes/cupcakesSep 2
I’ve talked about my mom on my blog before. I think she is where I get my love of food from. She made breakfast 6 mornings a week. (On Saturdays, we were allowed to get up early and eat cold cereal while watching cartoons. I think the only reason we were allowed cereal this one day was so that she could have one morning to sleep in!) She cooked every meal. In fact, I don’t ever remember eating out except for when we would go on vacation. It was never – “I’m too tired to cook, so let’s eat out tonight”.Birthdays were always a lot of fun because if it was your birthday, you would get to choose what was for dinner and what kind of cake you wanted. I remember always wanting homemade chicken nuggets for dinner, and the cake of choice was always cherry chip with fluffy frosting. It wasn’t until I started reading food blogs that I found out that most people call this frosting 7 minute frosting or marshmallow frosting, not fluffy frosting! And although it’s been quite awhile since I’ve had a cherry chip cake, fluffy frosting still remains my favorite.
I’ve made a similar cupcake on here before – a devil’s food cupcake with marshmallow frosting. The frosting on my first post was good, but it wasn’t the same as the frosting from my childhood. And this cupcake recipe is much better. I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to love birthdays like I did, and I won’t be surprised if they always choose fluffy frosting for their cakes!
Devil’s Food Cupcakes
adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Baking Book2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1 1/3 cups cold waterLine cupcake tins with cupcake liners. Preheat oven to 350F.
Stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high for 30 seconds. Add sugar and vanilla; beat until well combined. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each. Add flour mixture and water alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined.
Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Fluffy Frosting
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup sugar
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanillaCombine corn syrup and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, and boil until sugar is dissolved.
Meanwhile, beat the egg whites until stiff. Add vanilla. When the corn syrup/sugar mixture is ready, pour it in a stream into the egg whites while still beating. Beat until the mixture cools a bit and forms a smooth, marshmallow frosting.
32 Responses to “Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Fluffy Frosting”
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kat said on September 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
oh those do look like perfect kids cupcakes, that fluffy frosting is so awesome
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Patricia Scarpin said on September 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
You are the cupcake queen, Deb!
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April said on September 2nd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
These look fantastic!
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farida said on September 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Ohhh, these cupcakes looks very tempting! Yum!
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RecipeGirl said on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I definitely need to experiment with more cupcake recipes. I never think to make them, but I do love how they turn out… all cute with the swirly frosting and everything. Yours are pretty
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Maria said on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Deb what a lovely read and my mum was always the same, she always cooked and I don’t remember us having take-outs and the few times we had Mc Donalds it was a really big treat!
These cupcakes look really delish and the frosting is so fluffy!
Maria
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Deb said on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Oh they look delectable! Yum!!
My mum used to do the same thing on birthdays for us too and I still carry it on with my kids. It’s such a cool tradition. For the life of me, I cannot remember what I used to choose tho.
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PheMom said on September 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Its so fun to think about traditions you can carry on. Your cupcakes and frosting look perfect!
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glamah16 said on September 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Those will be some lucky kids because yiu have a way with the sweets!I love marshmallow frosting.
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Sophie said on September 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Wow! What a mom! I really admire her for making breakfast every morning but Saturdays; I’m the other way around, I only make breakfasts on Saturdays
. I really like your fluffy frosting, it looks smooth and delicious like soft serve! Great cupcakes![Reply]
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Maria said on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
What a super mom!! Breakfast every morning is a lot of work!!
I love the cupcakes. I will have to try them. The frosting looks yummy![Reply]
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Mrs. L said on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Great looking cupcakes! I love being able to ask for specific food things on my birthday and getting them.
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creampuff said on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
That’s a good-lookin’ cupcake!
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Pearlsofeast said on September 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
The frosting are really good and they look perfect.
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[eatingclub] vancouver || js said on September 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
Your mother is an amazing woman. Thanks for sharing the story.
These cupcakes look heavenly, the name notwithstanding.
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The Mediocre Cook said on September 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 am
Those look absolutely delicious. One thing I need to start doing is making more treats for the kids!
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Elle said on September 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 am
What a great post–and your mom is a hero. I love that fluffy frosting!
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hot garlic said on September 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 am
I’m really not a cake person… unless it’s made from scratch baby! Good call! I’m guessing this means your central air was fixed {it probably said that and I missed it…}
Looks tasty!
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Brilynn said on September 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 am
We never ate out in my house either. When I was really young it was almost always my Mom who cooked but then it switched somewhere along the lines and Dad made all our meals. Baking was never a Dad thing though so Mom made birthday cakes. Mine was always black forest with whipped cream.
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noble pig said on September 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 am
Great memories! We only went out to dinner on Sunday night otherwise it was all home cooking.
These cupcakes sound really great!
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Meeta said on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 am
lovely lovely. i used to love devil food cake when i was in the US. these are such a cute way of serving these!
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Katie said on September 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
That frosting looks wonderfully fluffy.
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Grace said on September 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
you’re gonna be a fabulous mom, deborah! sounds like you had an awesome model growing up, and i love that you’re looking forward to sharing this fluffy frosting with the next generation.
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HoneyB said on September 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
my birthday is coming up…and these look like the perfect treat to have! sort of reminds me of the mayonnaise cake with fluffy frosting that I used to request from my Nanny!
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Dhanggit said on September 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
this is beautiful deborah!! the fluffy frosting is so pro
i’ll be doing this for my little i’m sure she will love it![Reply]
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Erin said on September 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
These look so pretty and delicious! I love devil’s food cake and cupcakes!
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Rosie said on September 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am
A wonderful post Deb and brings back memories for me as a child. My mum would cook fresh produce every day and bake at least twice a week.
Your cupcakes look amazing with fluffy frosting
Rosie x
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Paola said on September 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Gorgeous little cupcakes there! Aren’t cupcakes the perfect food???
paola
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Kevin said on September 5th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Those cupcakes look so dark and good. The pure white frosting is a really nice contrast.
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ashley said on September 5th, 2008 at 1:21 am
i’ve never made devil’s food anything… i really need to. these look SOOO good! the dark cupcakes and the white fluffy icing… gorgeous
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mimi said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
these look sooo good!! yum, yum, i’m so hungry for cupcakes now!
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Cali said on September 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Mmmm. I always called it Sticky Frosting, and it is still my favorite!
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