Name: Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 43 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cup Sugar; 1 cup Butter, softened; 4 Large Eggs; 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract; 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream; 3/4 cup Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa Powder; 1 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 cup Butter, softened; 2 tbsp Shortening; 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract; 4 cups Confectioners' Sugar; 1/2 cup Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa Powder; 1/2 cup Evaporated Milk

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This is a Hershey cupcakes recipe with a deliciously moist chocolate cupcake and a milk chocolate buttercream frosting. Top them with chocolate sprinkles or chocolate swirls.

Hershey’s chocolate cupcakes have a sweet smooth chocolate taste. Chocolate on chocolate is so delicious and milk chocolate is even better!

These are milk chocolate cupcakes without buttermilk. They have Hershey’s cocoa powder and heavy whipping cream to make luscious milky chocolate.

Ingredients for Hershey Chocolate Cupcakes

Sugar
Butter
Large Eggs
Pure Vanilla Extract
Heavy Whipping Cream
Hershey’s Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
All-Purpose Flour
Baking Powder

Ingredients for Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting

Butter
Shortening
Vanilla Extract
Confectioners’ Sugar
Hershey’s Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
Evaporated Milk

How to Make Chocolate Cupcakes From Scratch

This milk chocolate cupcake recipe is really easy to make. Follow these steps and they’ll be done in no time.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line cupcake pans with 24 cupcake liners.
In a mixer with a paddle attachment or a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
Blend in eggs and vanilla extract. Add heavy whipping cream and mix.
Sift flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder and mix into the bowl.
Fill each cupcake liner approximately 2/3 full with batter. The batter will be thick.
Bake for 15-18 minutes. Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of a toothpick and if it comes out clean they are done.

How to Make Milk Chocolate Cupcake Frosting

In a mixing bowl with a whisk attachment add butter, shortening, vanilla, and cocoa powder.
Begin slowly alternating confectioners’ sugar and evaporated milk into the mixing bowl, blending well after each addition until reaching the desired consistency.

How to Decorate Cupcakes with Frosting

I used Wilton’s 2D tip for these cupcakes in the photos, but you can also use 1M which is just as versatile. They’re both stars, but 1M is slightly more open than the 2D tip.

To learn how to decorate cupcakes I recommend Cakes by Lynz’s piping tutorials on YouTube. She explains the basics of decorating cupcakes, but also has a library of many other videos with pretty decorations.

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Enjoy!