This is my all time favorite vanilla icing. It sweet and creamy and tastes amazing. Just perfect for a Valentine that doesn't love chocolate (gasp!)
White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
1 package cream cheese, softened
6 oz white chocolate, finely grated
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup milk
1 - With an electric mixer, whip cream cheese and butter until smooth
2 - Add in powdered sugar, vanilla, and grated white chocolate and mix until all of the powdered sugar is incorporated
3 - Whip in milk, by the tablespoon, until desired consistency is reached
You could melt the chocolate, but I prefer the delicious bits of white chocolate throughout the icing.
I like it on french vanilla cupcakes, but it would be absolutely heavenly on a gorgeous red velvet cake!
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Here's a sweet recipe sure to impress your Valentine...or coworkers...whatever the case might be. Dark chocolate cupcakes filled with blackberry preserves and then topped with a sinful chocolate frosting.
Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
1 3/4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon instant coffee granules
2 eggs
1 cup strong brewed coffee, cooled
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 - Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare muffin liners
2 - In large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt
3 - Mix together and create a well in the center
4 - Disolve instant granules into the coffee
5 - Add coffee, buttermilk, eggs, oil and vanilla to the dry ingredients (in the well)
6 - Beat for 2 minutes on medium speed - batter will be thin
7 - Fill muffin tins 2/3 full
8 - Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
Filling
Once cooled, fill each cupcake with blackberry preserves (or filling of your choice)
1 - Remove a cone shaped piece of cupcake
2 - Fill void almost full with preserves
3 - Cut bottom point off of the cone of cake
4 - Top with remaining cupcake piece
Double Chocolate Frosting
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 cup heavy cream (+ additional 2-4 tablespoons)
3 oz semi sweet chocolate
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar (1 pound)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 - Combine butter, chocolate & cocoa in a small saucepan
2 - Cook over medium heat until butter is melted, stirring constantly
3 - Remove from heat
4 - Add sugar, vanilla and heavy cream
5 - Beat well until combined
6 - Add additional cream 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is achieved
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This is the best 2 ingredient dessert in the world. Ok, it IS a bit of a cheat that I count a premade cheesecake as one ingredient, but I took the easy way out and bought some little cheesecakes to use in this. My grocery store was running a special on teesny individual sized cheesecakes, which is what actually made the lightbulb of cheesecakeliciousness go off in my head. I love that this isn't a super sweet dessert. It's a nice 'little something sweet' and you can make as many or as few as you'd like.
Fried Cheesecake
Wonton wrappers
Premade cheesecake (your own or storebought)
Canola or Vegetable Oil (for fying)
Powdered Sugar (if desired)
1 - Add approximately 1/2 inch of oil to a skillet and heat over medium heat
2 - Place a wonton wrapper on a flat surface
3 - Spoon approximately a tablespoon of premade cheesecake onto the center of the wonton wrapper
4 - Seal wontons by rubbing water onto 2 of the wonton wrapper sides
5 - And folding the other 2 sides over to form a triangle - press edges together to seal. You could also do any number of beautifully fancy folding techniques. I was all about expediency of cheesecake to mouth, so I went the fastest folding route.
6 - Fry wontons in small batches approximately 1 minute per side (or until goldenbrown)
7 - Move fried wontons to paper towel covered plate to cool and allow the excess oil to drain
8 - Dust with powdered sugar (if desired). A nice berry sauce would also have been a perfect accompaniment.
The batch I made were devoured too quickly to get a good picture of the inside. But it is absolutely heavenly - the crunchy wonton wrapper...the sweet, creamy cheesecake. Just like crab wontons...but without the crab...and sweeter...so really, not like crab wontons at all. Sorry, stream of consciousness there.
From this point forward I might wrap all deserts in wonton wrappers and fry them. Things could get messy. But if wonton wrappers are wrong, I don't wanna be right...
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