The Story: Alright, everyone is wanting some Valentines recipes. I didn’t want to just dye some vanilla cake pink and make it all girly looking or make red velvet (because I am allergic to red dye), so here is my take on a “cute” cupcake. Chocolate Malt Cupcakes, pretty freaking cute. And with a straw! Who can resist that?
Make Sure you check our my Baking Tutorial for this recipe!
Ingredients
Cake:
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup malted milk powder
Chocolate Malt Buttercream:
1/2 cup butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup cocoa powder
2-3 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup malted milk powder
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with 24 cupcake liners.
2. Sift cake mix in to a small bowl and set aside.
3. Combine eggs, oil, buttermilk, sour cream and vanilla extract until smooth.
4. add malted milk powder to cake mix and stir.
5. Combine dry and wet ingredients and mix.
6. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 16-22 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.
7. Buttercream: Beat butter and cream cheese for 4 minutes and scrape down the bowl as needed. Add cocoa powder, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and malted mix powder. Beat until smooth. If too thick, add a tablespoon of milk. If too thin, add more powdered sugar.
8. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with chocolate malt balls and colorful straws.
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Hey Lizzy,
Your site is looking great!. I’ve made your cinnamon toast crunch cupcakes.( my hubby and his coworkers loved them!)I will be cooking this years valentine banquet at my church. I have a feeling if I dont make something chocolate for dessert I’m sure there will be people rushing at me with forks and knives. And I cant make any cupcakes with nuts, carrots or coconut since I have guests with allergies. I saw these chocolate covered strawberries at costco(like chocolate covered raisins) and was wondering if they would pair good as a garnish with your chocolate strawberry cream cupcakes. If not, any other suggestions? Thanks
Adorable…thanks for sharing!
Those are so pretty and look delicious!!
The cupcakes are adorable! We try to stay away from dyes here too. Have you ever tried beetroot powder in red velvet cake?
I have not tried that! I will look into it, thanks
Absolutely love your new website and absolutely love your fun creations….can’t wait to try these…sooo cute!
Thanks!
These are so cute and they have Whoppers! I shared your link on my Friday Favorites.
Love your site. Was wondering what tip you used to do the frosting.
I used a 2D tip, but it’s not the Wilton 2D. It’s closer to a 1M open star tip.
You never disappoint! These look so good. I’ll be making these. As always, thanks for sharing your
great recipes.
Adorable! Planned to make these this morning for a party, when I realized I didn’t have Devil’s Food Cake Mix. Had already gotten everything started. So I improvised and made “Vanilla Malts”! Used French Vanilla cake mix, and left the cocoa powder out of the frosting. Delicious! Thanks for the super cute idea!
Oh fun! Well I am glad it worked out! I have a similar recipe I will be posting soon, watch for it
I love the girly-theme and the cute presentation. The fact that it uses Devils food cake mix is also a plus. I never ran out of such in my pantry. Great cupcakes!
These cupcakes look to die for! I love the chocolate malt and straw on top… it really adds to the appearance. Beautiful
Just watched the Chocolate Malt cupcakes tutorial – excellent job! You speak clearly, give precise instructions, and don’t appear to be terrified to be on camera! You go, Girl!
You rocked these cupcakes!!! They are cute and chic and, I imagine, delicious. Your
tut was very well done. Looks like you have been doing this for awhile.
so cute and so delicious ♥
have a wonderful day my dear ♥ kisses from Romania
Cute cupcakes. I was wondering if you used vanilla or chocolate malted milk powder in these?
I didn’t even know there was such a thing as chocolate malted milk powder! I used vanilla, from Carnation.
I bought all the ingredients to make the cupcakes and noticed I bought chocolate malted milk powder. Do you think it will affect the recipe at all?
It should turn out fine!
I love your recipes and ideas…….your photos are great! Thanks you for sharing!
Your photos are beautiful. It looks really pretty and inviting! Thank you for sharing.
Hi:
Love your website – recipes and ideas. You have given me so much confidence in baking cupcakes!!!
Question: For the icing do you use unsweetened or sweetened cocoa powder? Or it does not matter?
Thanks
Alicia
Unsweetened
Can I omit Egg in this recipe?
I would not suggest it
Since Duncan Hines has reduced their cake mixes all but the Signature Brands would using the Swiss Chocalate mix work for this recipe?
The smaller cake mixes still work (I use Pillsbury) but just add a little less liquid!
I have been told that you can substitute applesauce for oil. Have you tried in this recipe (malt cupcakes) and does it affect the taste? Sometimes the oil in recipes can be to much but is necessary to keep the cupcake moist.
Thanks