Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes

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CHOCOLATE TURTLE CUPCAKES

a cupcake recipe past times Lindsay Conchar
(makes 14-16 cupcakes)

For the Chocolate Cupcakes:

• 1/2 loving cup unsalted butter
• 1 loving cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 6 tablespoons water
• 6 tablespoons natural unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 loving cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons milk

1. Preheat oven to 350�F in addition to delineate of piece of job cupcake pan amongst cupcake liners.
2. Beat butter in addition to carbohydrate until lite inwards coloring textile in addition to fluffy, well-nigh 3-4 minutes.
3. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating only until blended.
4. Combine vanilla, H2O in addition to cocoa pulverization inwards a dissever bowl in addition to whisk until smooth. Mixture volition locomote thick.
5. Add chocolate mixture to batter in addition to mix until combined. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl every bit needed to brand certain everything is good combined.
6. Combine flour, baking soda in addition to common salt inwards a dissever bowl.
7. Alternate adding the flour mixture in addition to milk to the batter. Begin past times adding one-half of the dry out mix, hence mix well. Add the milk in addition to mix well, scraping downward the sides every bit needed. Add the remaining flour mixture in addition to mix until smooth.
8. Fill cupcake liners well-nigh 3/4 full. Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out amongst a few crumbs.
9. Allow cupcakes to cool well-nigh 2-3 minutes, hence take to a cooling rack to complete cooling.

For the Caramel Pecan Frosting:

• 1/2 loving cup butter
• 1/2 loving cup shortening
• 4 cups confectioners� sugar
• 7 tablespoons caramel sauce
• 1-2 tablespoons H2O or milk, every bit needed
• 1/2 loving cup finely chopped pecans
• Caramel sauce, every bit needed for drizzle
• Chopped pecans, every bit needed for topping

1. Combine the butter in addition to shortening inwards a large bowl in addition to mix until smooth.
2. Add two cups of confectioners� carbohydrate in addition to mix until smooth.
3. Add well-nigh one-half of the caramel sauce in addition to mix until smooth.
4. Add remaining confectioners� carbohydrate in addition to mix until smooth.
5. Add remaining caramel sauce in addition to mix until smooth, keeping an oculus on the consistency of the frosting hence it doesn�t popular off every bit good thin. Add 1-2 tablespoons of water, if needed, to farther sparse frosting.
6. Stir inwards the chopped pecans.
7. Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes using a large circular pipage tip.  (The pecans volition popular off stuck inwards a star tip.)
8. Finish off the cupcakes amongst a drizzle of caramel in addition to additional chopped pecans.

source:http://thecakeblog.com