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    Design Dazzle » Recipes » Snacks/Treats

    Published: Sep 10, 2015 · Modified: Jul 31, 2020 by Toni Roberts · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

    The Yummiest Almond Joy Cupcakes

    I’ve been a candy connoisseur my whole life. Eating and tasting many candies and lots of candy bars. One of my favorites is an Almond Joy. It’s just pure deliciousness. A shared candy bar is the best. Almond Joy is very easy to share right up there along with the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.

    Almond Joy Cupcakes that will most definitely bring JOY!! Coconut and chocolate are bliss.

    I saw this recipe online for Almond Joy Cupcakes by Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. And boy did they look yummy. So I decided to go for it and make her recipe. It really is like eating an Almond Joy in cupcake form! Almond extract was the perfect ingredient for the frosting. It’s just what a good buttercream needs for a cupcake like this.

    Recipe for Almond Joy Cupcakes

    Cupcakes:

    • 2 cups flour or gluten free flour
    • 2 cups sugar
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ¾ cup Dutch process cocoa powder (I used Hershey Special Dark)
    • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 Tablespoon vanilla
    • 1 cup buttermilk
    • ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, melted

    Buttercream:

    • 2 sticks salted butter, slightly softened
    • ¼ cup heavy cream
    • 4 cups powdered sugar
    • 2 teaspoons pure almond extract

    Ganache:

    • 4 oz semi sweet chocolate, roughly chopped (or I used chocolate chips)
    • ½ cup heavy cream
    • ¼ cup light corn syrup
    • 2 cups sweetened, shredded coconut, for garnish

    Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 350. Line 24 muffin tins with cupcake liners and set aside.
    2. In the large bowl of a mixer, combine flour, sugar, salt, cocoa powder, baking soda, and baking powder. Combine with a whisk. Add eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter. Mix on low for 30 seconds. Scrape the sides of the bowl and increase mixer speed to medium — beat for 2 minutes. Batter will be thick (and yummy. not that I’d ever eat raw batter).
    3. Fill cupcake liners ⅔ full. Bake cupcakes 15 – 20 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
    4. While cupcakes bake, make your ganache: In a microwave safe bowl, combine chopped chocolate and heavy cream. Microwave for a couple minutes, stopping to stir every 30 seconds. Once the mixture is smooth, remove from microwave and stir in corn syrup. Place bowl in refrigerator until the ganache is thickened.
    5. Prepare buttercream: In the bowl of your mixer, beat butter, almond extract and heavy cream on medium speed until smooth and combined. Turn mixer speed to low and slowly add powdered sugar until barely mixed in. Increase speed to high and beat for about a minute, until light and fluffy. Frost cupcakes, top with a spoonful of ganache and coconut.

    Notes

    If you want extra high frosting on your cupcakes, double the frosting recipe.

    batter

    The batter was like a very thick pudding. Using an ice cream scoop to measure the batter into the cupcake baking liners was an easy way to do it!

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    middle-

    So a few little tweaks that I changed to the recipe. I used an icing tip to remove part of the middle of the cupcake. These little cake morsels are tasty so quickly gobble them up!

    filled-middle

    Instead of using the ganache for the top of the cupcake, I filled in the middle part with ganache. The cupcake looked a little cleaner this way. I would say it ends up being about 1 teaspoon of ganache inside the cupcake. So not too much!

    coconut

    Sprinkle the coconut on top of the ganache and before you frost the cupcake. Then sprinkle a little more coconut on top of the icing.

     

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    This is such a mouthwatering cupcake that tastes just like an Almond Joy!

    I shared this yummy Almond Joy Cupcakes recipe over at TGIF a while back so it’s about time I shared it here with my readers!

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