Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate cupcakes with pomegranate cream cheese frosting using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. Make ready 1 FOR CUPCAKES
  2. Take 2 cup granulated sugar
  3. Get 1 3⁄4 cup all purpose flour
  4. Get 3⁄4 cup special dark hersheys cocoa
  5. Prepare 1 1⁄2 tsp baking powder
  6. Make ready 1 1⁄2 tsp baking soda
  7. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  8. Make ready 2 eggs
  9. Take 1 cup milk
  10. Prepare 1⁄2 cup oil such as canola oil
  11. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
  12. Prepare 1 cup boiling water
  13. Prepare 1 FOR POMEGRANATE FROSTING
  14. Prepare 1 1⁄2 cup pomegranate juice
  15. Get 4 oz butter at room temperature
  16. Take 8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
  17. Prepare 12 oz powdered sugar, about 4 cups
  18. Get 7 oz bag of chocolate covered pomegranat juice pieces I use a brand called brookside they are in the candy section of the grocery store
Instructions to make Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranate Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. MAKE CUPCAKES
  2. Preheat oven to 350, line cupcake tins with paper liners, this makes 24 cupcakes
  3. In a large bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add eggs, milk oil and vanilla. Beat until combined. Stir in boiling water ( the batter will be very thin). Pour batter evenly into 24 paper lined cupcake tins. Bake 16 to 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.Cool on a rack
  4. FOROMEGRANATE FROSTING
  5. In a small saucepan, over medium heat reduce pomegranate juice by one half this will take awhile so I would advise doing this in advance or while the cupcakes are cooking.This must be cool before using in frosting.
  6. Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy.Slowly add powdered sugar and cooled pomegranate juice beat until smooth, you may not need all the sugar once you have a creamy fluffy frosting its done,
  7. Frost the cooled cupcakes with frosting top each cupcake with 3 chocolate covered pomegranate juice pieces, if you can not find them garnish with chocolate shavings

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