Spruce up a Box: Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Prep: 15 Minutes plus cooling Bake: ~15 minutes
Today’s recipe is just having fun with some box mix. It doesn’t take a lot to add a little something extra or fun to any old box mix. Today I used chocolate chips and melting chocolate to have this fun.
Ingredients
1 box golden butter cake
1/2 bag of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (or as desired)
1/2 cup melting chocolate
3 eggs
1 cup water
1/3 cup soft butter
Prep
You’ll want to fold them gentle in
Allowing them to cool usually matters with icing. With this it’s mostly important to be able to hold them
Preheat the oven to 350 F
In a bowl prepare the box mix with the water, butter, eggs, and cake mix
Mix well
Add in the chocolate chips. Fold these in.
Prepare your cupcake pan with the sleeves
Pour the batter into the cupcake sleeves, I used about 2 tbls per cup then added more with ones that looked less than half full
Bake for 14-17 minutes
Cool for at least 10 minutes
When cool, take the melting chocolate and melt in the microwave
Take the cooled cupcakes and dip into the chocolate, or spread as desired
Afterthoughts
You want to wait til the chocolate hardens before eating but tasty either way
These were fun to make and even more fun to eat. The chocolate chips added a fun surprise with each bite, similar to the candies in Cosmic brownies. The chocolate on top was rich and delicious and when cooled made a fun crunchy topping with it. This was like those magic shell chocolate for ice cream. It was a lot of fun for just a box mix.
