Rolo Filled Chocolate Cupcakes with Praline Frosting « Cake « Dessert

Chocolate cupcakes. Rolo candy. Praline frosting.

If there is anything more I need to say I honestly don’t know what it is. The chocolate cake is moist and tender – very chocolatey. You bite through the rich icing and into the dense cake and find yourself with a meltingly sweet Rolo oozing from the center.

Rolos are pretty darn popular here. They are right up there with sour patch kids – but I won’t be making cupcakes from those. Ew. We have a hard time keeping them away from Shiloh, especially – but all of us are pretty addicted to chocolate and caramel combos. Yum.

These are easy. A simple extra dark chocolate cupcake with an easy praline frosting (just leave the coconut and pecans out of the recipe) is filled with one rolo and then topped with a second Rolo – you know, for posterity.

Nutrition info is based on the cupcake alone, without the frosting.

Chocolate Cupcakes Filled with Rolos

: dark chocolate cupcakes with Rolo filling

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups of sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
2 egg yolks, room temperature
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Hershey’s Extra Dark cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon of baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 cup of buttermilk, room temp
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
48 Rolos, unwrapped

Preheat oven to 350F.
Beat butter and sugar on high until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time, beat thoroughly after each addition.
Blend flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda, in a bowl.
Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat on low until mixed.
Add ½ the buttermilk.
Continue to alternate the flour and buttermilk, ending with the flour.
Scoop into cupcake paper lined cupcake pans, about 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes.

Preparation time: 10 minute(s)

Cooking time: 20 minute(s)

Number of servings (yield): 24

Culinary tradition: USA (General)

Calories: 226 (without frosting)

Fat: 9.9

Protein: 2.8

Carbs: 32

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image (c) marye audet 2011

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