Who doesn’t enjoy a good monster? My kids asked me to make them monster cupcakes after watching the movie “Monsters, Inc.” I made them, and now we always make them, especially around Halloween.
| Prep Time: | 45 mins |
| Cook Time: | 14 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 chocolate cupcakes |
Ingredients
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 10 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
- 2 drops green food coloring
- 24 candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Let stand until milk curdles, about 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
- Combine 1/2 cup butter, white sugar, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Mix 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Alternate adding flour mixture and curdled milk to the creamed butter mixture, mixing until batter is well blended. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center of 1 cupcake comes back clean, about 14 minutes. Cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.
- Combine cream cheese and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners’ sugar gradually. Color frosting green with a few drops of food coloring.
- Place green frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Hold the pastry bag at a 90-degree angle 1/8 inch above the surface of a cupcake. Squeeze bag to form green ‘fur’ by pulling tip up and away when the icing strand is about 1/2 inch high. Repeat to cover cupcake evenly with fur. Add 2 eyes to each cupcake.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 316 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 83 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 133 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 20 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |