Thin Mint Fudge Cupcakes with chocolate minty cookie frosting and a layer of hot fudge sauce, yum! These are a dream come true! My friend ate one last night and she said “This was the best thing I’ve ever had.”
So I love using a layer of ganache between my frosting and cupcake because it really makes the cupcake taste more decadent and special. But this time I used hot fudge sauce! I had fudge on the brain because I used it in my Thin Mint Poke Cake recipe last week and then I ate it while I watched some Netflix (eeeeek! Terrible I know! But oh so good.). And I needed to find a way to use it in my baking so that I wouldn’t eat the whole jar!!! Well, I did finish eating the jar by the spoonful… but I got another jar and topped off these cupcakes!
And I don’t have any Girl Scouts in the area so I cheated and bought the Keebler Grasshopper brand but they’re still incredible!
Since I only used the really fine cookie crumbs for the frosting, I used the larger pieces as “sprinkles” after I piped out the frosting. No crumb left behind 🙂
Just look at that layer of hot fudge sauce… it’ calling your name!
I try to make everyone happy here, so the recipe below is a scratch recipe but if you want a cake mix recipe: 1 box Devil’s Food Cake mix, 3 eggs, 1/2 C. oil, 1 C. milk, 1/2 C. sour cream, 2 tsp. vanilla extract bake for 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Thin Mint Fudge Cupcakes
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE CAKE: for cake mix recipe see above
- 1 1/2 C. all-purpose flour
- 1 C. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 4 eggs at room temp
- 1 C. sugar
- 1 C. brown sugar packed
- 2/3 cup oil
- 1 C. buttermilk or milk
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- JAR OF HOT FUDGE SAUCE
- THIN MINT FROSTING:
- 12 Thin Mints finely crushed
- 3/4 C. butter
- 1/3 C. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2-3 C. powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
- 1-2 Tbsp. milk
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners, I used green liners because I wanted them to look even more minty!
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2. In a medium bowl, combine cocoa flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
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3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk and vanilla extract.
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4. Pour half the dry ingredients into the wet and stir. Then add the rest of the dry ingredients and stir again. Don't over mix.
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5. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and bake for 18-22 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let cool.
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6. Spread a layer of the hot fudge sauce onto each cupcake. You can heat up the fudge in the microwave to make it more spreadable, but I wanted mine to have a thick layer so I didn't heat it up.
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7. Thin Mint Frosting: Finely crush your cookies (I used my blendtec) and if you want to use a piping bag you'll need to only use the really fine cookie crumbs, so use a sifter to remove the larger pieces. Beat the butter, cocoa powder, 1 cup powdered sugar, vanilla, peppermint and 1 Tbsp. milk. Continue to add more powdered sugar and milk until you reach your desired consistency, and then stir in the crushed Thin Mints!
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8. Pipe over the fudge layer on the cupcakes and top with cookie pieces and extra Thin Mints!
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If I make these the night before we eat them will the fudge sauce still be the right consistency or will it dry out?
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