Chocolate Bacon Toffee Cupcakes W/ Maple Cream Cheese Icing
Sweet, moist, and chewy!
Posted by Jennie B.
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Who doesn't love bacon?
Cupcakes:
BUTTER,1/2 Cup (1 Stick,) room temperature
SUGAR, 1 Cup
2 LARGE EGGS
FLOUR, 3/4 Cup
BAKING POWDER, 1/2 tsp
BAKING SODA, 1/4 tsp
SALT, 1/8 tsp
UNSWEETED COCOA POWDER, 1/2 Cup
MILK, 1/2 Cup
PURE VANILLA EXTRACT, 1 tsp
CHOCOLATE COVERED TOFFEE BITS, 1/3 Cup
1 PCKG Peppered Bacon
Icing:
PHILLY CREAM CHEESE, 1 1/2 packages
BUTTER, 1/2 stick, room temperature
POWDERED SUGAR, 3 cups, sifted
MAPLE SYRUP, 1/4 to 1/2 cup
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You Will Need (13 things)
- Sugar
- Egg(s)
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- Milk
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Heath Bar
- Peppered Bacon
- Cream Cheese
- Powdered Sugar
- Maple Syrup
Steps (12 steps, 60 minutes)
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1
Preheat the oven to 350.
Cook your bacon until crispy/crunchy, and slice into tiny chunks.(If you would like, reserve a small handful of chunks for garnish.)
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2
In a large bowl, beat BUTTER until softened, then beat in SUGAR.
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3
Beat in TWO LARGE EGGS!
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4
In a separate bowl: Combine FLOUR, BAKING POWDER, BAKING SODA, SALT, and COCOA POWDER. Mix gently together with a whisk.
Now you have two bowls — One of wet ingredients, and one of dry. (Skipping the previous step for the sake of time WILL affect your final product, so try not to be lazy.)
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5
Add MILK and VANILLA EXTRACT to your wet ingredients and mix.
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6
Slowly mix your dry ingredients into the larger wet ingredients bowl. Do not add all at once.
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7
Gently fold the TOFFEE and BACON into your batter.
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8
Fill your cupcake cups with this delicious bacon chocolate toffee batter until they are about 1/2 - 3/4 of the way full.
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9
This recipe makes exactly 20 CUPCAKES.
Put them in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.After 20 minutes, put a toothpick through one of them and see if it comes out clean. If not, they are not cooked yet and need to be baked for another 3 - 5 minutes.
(Our cupcakes took 23 minutes and 30 seconds to bake.)
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10
Now you should make the icing...
Beat butter and cream cheese together until very creamy.
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11
Alternate between adding your sifted powdered sugar and maple syrup. Add, then mix, and repeat until everything is in that bowl.
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12
You’re all done! This is a simple and very good frosting for any kind of cupcakes. Chop up the two pieces of bacon you set aside, frost the cupcakes, and top with a chunk ‘o bacon.
I’d love to see how yours turned out.