Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cupcakes Recipe. I’ve purchased a few bags of cherries this season but you probably wouldn’t know it. The Toddler and I are big fans of just eating them straight out of the bag. But what we did actually cook with, none of those recipes made it to our blog. Oh, they were good (especially the cherry margarita!). But when it came down to Eat or Shoot, we ate. So while I only have one single cherry recipe to show for all the cherries we’ve consumed, I made sure that it was a good one. These cupcakes combine a few absolutely wonderful things: Chocolate Cake – I’ve flip-flopped over the last few years on a favorite chocolate cake recipe.
Fresh Cherries – They’re covered in chocolate and baked into the center of the cupcake. Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting - it’s frosting. The recipe reads a mile long but it’s not as bad as it seems: You just have to make the chocolate-covered cherry centers, the cupcake batter, the frosting, and the chocolate-covered cherry toppers. Ingredients Instructions Notes. 51 Things That Will Make You Smile. Some days, it’s easy to smile.
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OK. Please bear with me because not only did I go picture crazy with this post, but there is one whopping heck of a lot of recipes at the bottom. This is a post of mammoth proportions, but I promise, it’s worth it! Seriously though, I very, very rarely do something fancy in the decorating department and I was so ridiculously happy with how this turned out that I can’t seem to help myself, so I hope you don’t mind too much! For this month’s Secret Recipe Club I received Ms. Amanda herself – that’s right! I decided, in honor of Amanda and all the hard work she does for us (and because she was recently orphaned in one of the month’s reveal dates and I felt like I needed to pull out all the stops here) that I would not only get my craftiness groove on (what there is of it) but that I would also dig through her archives and come up with something extra, extra special.
Of course, you know I never leave well enough alone, so I always have to fiddle around. So. And!!! But still. So.