Hot Cocoa mix packs are used to create rich chocolate cucpcakes that’ll satisfy your sweet tooth!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Cooling / Chilling Time10 minutesmins
Total Time40 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cupcakes with hot chocolate powder, hot chocolate cupcake recipe, hot cocoa cupcake recipe, hot cocoa cupcakes
Servings: 6cupcakes
Calories: 244kcal
Equipment
1 Large Mixing Bowl
1 small or medium bowl
1 6-cup muffin tin
6 cupcake liners
Ingredients
¾cupunbleached all-purpose flour
¼cupgranulated sugar
¼cupStarbucks Hot Cocoa Mix
½Tbsp.baking powder
¼tsp.salt
¼cupunsalted buttermelted + cooled
1largeeggroom temperature
½Tbsp.Madagascar vanilla bean extract
⅓cupmilkwe used unsweetened almond vanilla
¼cupbaking chipswe used cream cheese, but feel free to go with whatever you like!
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Spray or line a 6-muffin cup tin.
In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, hot cocoa mix, baking powder, and salt.
In another smaller bowl, whisk together eggs, vanilla, milk, and melted butter. (CRITICAL that the melted butter is cool before adding.)
Using a rubber spatula, fold the egg mixture into the flour mix.
Deposit 1 Tbsp. of batter into each muffin cup. Add chocolate chips to the remaining batter in the bowl and fold in. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups.
Bake 15 – 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Let cool in muffin tin for 5 – 10 minutes before removing from the tin and transferring to a wire rack to fully cool.