Description

Dress up your plain chocolate cupcakes by adding rich creme de menthe mints, dark chocolate and German chocolate cake to make your cupcakes taste like a little bit of heaven!

Ingredients

• 1 (18.25-oz.) pkg. German chocolate cake mix
• 1 (16-oz.) container sour cream
• 1/4 cu. butter, melted
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• Vegetable cooking spray
• Chocolate Buttercream:
• 1/4 cu. finely chopped or shaved thin crème de menthe chocolate mints for garnish
• Chocolate Buttercream
• 1/2 cu. butter, softened
• 1 (3-oz.) package cream cheese
• 1 (16-oz.) package powdered sugar
• 1/4 cu. milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cu. (6 oz.) dark chocolate morsels

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Beat first 5 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer just until dry ingredients are moistened. Increase speed to medium, and beat 3 to 4 min. or until smooth, stopping to scrape bowl as needed.
3. Place paper baking cups in muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter evenly into baking cups, filling each two-thirds full.