Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting

Today I was determined to either make Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting or Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi Hats. I've been meaning to do both of these variations for a while now and both sound so amazing, don't they? I didn't have the energy to do both, so you can see which one I ultimately chose by the title of this post. I'll do Chocolate Peanut Butter Hi Hats next time.

You might be thinking, "Sour cream in frosting, that's weird." It actually is a perfect compliment to the semi-sweet chocolate and gives it a sweet-n-tangy taste. Because its such a 'loud' frosting, I decided to pair it with subdued but not overly, Yellow Cupcakes.

I am no stranger to using box mixes as you could probably notice by some of the others posts, so I expected Yellow cake cupcakes to be, well, yellow. To me, they are more like vanilla cupcakes in texture and color, but perhaps that's because of the recipe I used. Oh well, they are still delicious.






Yellow Cupcakes
adapted from Yellow Cupcakes
preheat oven to 375 degrees

3/4 cup butter

1 1/2 cup caster sugar

3 eggs

15 oz all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp vanilla bean paste

1 1/3 cup milk or cream

1. In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. Cream butter and sugar with mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well between additions.
4. Add vanillas.
5. Using a wooden spoon, mix in flour and milk alternating between starting and ending with milk.

Fill liners to 3/4 full. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Makes about 20 cupcakes. Set aside to cool.

Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting

12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
1/2 tsp salt
4 cups powdered sugar

1. Melt chocolate chips with butter in top of double boiler over hot water. 
2. Remove from hot water; stir in sour cream, vanilla, and salt. 
3. Slowly beat in powdered sugar until desired spreading consistency is reached.

Pipe unto cupcakes. Add sprinkles if desired.