It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! OK not really, but my kitchen sure did smell like Christmas today. I don’t mean to push Halloween and Thanksgiving aside, but this recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes makes me excited for the upcoming Christmas season. I was literally *this* close to turning on the Christmas music this afternoon. Then my husband reminded me that I’m behind on making the little one’s Halloween costume and I snapped back to reality.
The reason behind the cupcakes is to celebrate my husband. I don’t share details about him often but if there’s one thing you should know it’s that he’s an incredibly hard worker that always puts our family first. Two days ago he interviewed for a higher position at work and yesterday we found out he’s being promoted. Him working in law enforcement is hard on our family, we don’t always get to see him during holidays and our schedules are a complete mess most weeks. My husband works long hours to provide for us, all while driving almost an hour away on his days off to finish graduate school. I am so incredibly lucky to have such a wonderful husband, who also happens to be an incredible father to our children. I wanted to celebrate him for everything he does for our family everyday. This evening we went out to dinner then came home and enjoyed a chocolate peppermint cupcake.
We loved the cupcakes, especially the kids!
For this recipe I tried the new Cool Whip chocolate frosting. Have you tried it yet? It has a great light and fluffy consistency that’s the perfect substitute to homemade frosting. I love homemade frosting but I’ll admit sometimes I like something quick and easy.
Chocolate Peppermint Cupcake Recipe:
1 box Betty Crocker triple chocolate cake mix
3 eggs
1 1/4 cup water
1/2 cup oil
1tsp peppermint extract
1 cup Andes peppermint crunch
Frosting:
Cool Whip Chocolate Frosting
Andes peppermint crunch
Ghirardelli Peppermint bark
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and fill muffin pan with cupcake liners. Mix eggs, water, oil, and cake mix together. Add peppermint extract to batter and mix thoroughly. Fill pan and bake for 18-20 minutes; allow to cool. Fill pastry bag with COOL WHIP frosting and pipe onto cupcakes. Top with peppermint crunch and bark if desired. Serve immediately or store in freezer until ready to eat.
These look great! I kept my cupcakes in the refrigerator with the Cool Whip Frosting and they stayed beautiful!!! I can’t wait to start baking Christmas goodies :)
Wow, these look to die for! Chocolate and mint is my husband’s FAVORITE combo.
Those are some gorgeous cupcakes! I love chocolate and peppermint, especially when it involves Ghiradelli Peppermint Bark! :)
YUMMY! Those look so good I want to dive in.
These look AMAZING!!
The chocolate cool whip frosting was my favorite out of the three. Reminded me of a frosty:-) Your cupcakes looks so delicious and I am happy to see you went Christmasy on them!!! I keep wanting to break out the holiday recipes but I have been waiting.
I love this cupcake! I love peppermint, this really gets me in the mood for Christmas! I loved this post too! Sounds like a great guy you’ve got there! I hope he loved his cupcakes!
Absolutely yummy! What a sweet thing to treat your husband. I am definately going to try this recipe. Peppermint and chocolate is one of my favorite things.
I must try these immediately – they look fabulous! I can’t tell you how much I LOVE the new Cool Whip frostings. I stocked up my freezer (with 11) because I’m afraid they’ll stop making them. They, hands down, beat ALL the frosting recipes I have tried over the years. And the convenience is a huge plus.
What a yummy cupcake! I could listen to Christmas music year round but I think my husband would get annoyed. It’s my favorite time of year.
Those look so good I can taste it! I would love it if you would share these on Super Sweet Saturday at swtboutique.blogspot.com. We have lot’s of cupcakes over there ; )
Have a great weekend!
Steph
Those look fabulous!
Oh. My. Gosh!! These look amazing! I’m such a sucker for anything peppermint so I’ll definitely be making these–especially with the holidays coming up :) Thanks for sharing!
For the love of God, woman! For. The. Love. Of. God! I am going to have to make these & barricade the kitchen.
Cutest Cupcake Evuh! These look super good :)
Beautiful and DELICIOUS looking! My husband would die (he loves peppermint).
I’m so not ready for Christmas but these look good enough to make right now. I had no idea Cool Whip made a frosting.
Congrats! I know how exciting work promotions are, my fiance just made assistant IT director. These cupcakes look amazing. I love chocolate peppermint.
I’d love if you would link your cupcakes up to Fall Into the Holidays-
https://redcrowgreencrow.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/fall-into-the-holidays-6/
Hope to see you there!
Katie @ Horrific Knits
Wow! Gorgeous stuff! I am your newest follower and was hoping that you would hop on over to my blog and return the favor!!
http://www.enjoyingtheepiphany.com
Thank you!
Sarah
Saw you at the Sunday Scoop! These look amazing! :)