Sugar-Coated Sundays: Amy's Chocolate Pudding Cupcakes

I'm merging my worlds today, and bringing a little bit of work to the blog.  So this is Amy.

Amy is my super funny, awesome, wicked nice supervisor.  {I swear I'm not just saying all this because I'll know she'll read this.  Hi Amy!}  Within the first month of starting my job, Amy brought chocolate cupcakes in for everyone.  I figured they were just chocolate cupcakes - per the usual.  Not so.  These cupcakes are Amy-zing.  Haha!  

Today YOU get to experience the deliciousness that are Amy's Chocolate Pudding Cupcakes...two ways.  I originally picked a frosting I thought sounded awesome to top these cupcakes with, and then Amy brought in her Labor Cupcakes - cupcakes so good they make you into labor.  Yeah.  They are.  I couldn't help myself, so I made both frostings and had a chocolate cupcake face stuffing contest, with myself.  It was bad.  Any who.  Yummy cupcakes for all!!

Amy's Chocolate Pudding Cupcakes

Ingredients:
1 box Devil's Food cake mix
{per box directions - water, oil, and eggs}
1 small box chocolate pudding
1/2 cup sour cream
12 ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips {use mini chips if you make mini cupcakes}

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Beat together cake mix, eggs, water, oil, pudding, and in a large bowl.  Fold in chocolate chips.
3. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners and fill each cup 2/3 full with batter.
4. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes (minis get 11 to 13 minutes), or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Remove cupcakes from tin after 5 minutes and cool completely on a wire rack.

Amy's Labor Cupcake Frosting

Ingredients:

1 stick of butter, room temperature

1 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread

1 cup COOL WHIP  {Amy uses a whole tub of COOL WHIP}

Directions:

Beat together butter, vanilla, and chocolate-hazelnut spread.  Sift in powdered sugar and mix until combined and smooth.  Fold in Cool Whip.  Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.

Stefani's Favorite Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

From Cupcake Project

Ingredients:

8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

1/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

3 to 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted (use more sugar if you like stiffer frosting)

1/2 cup cocoa powder.

Directions:

1. Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth and creamy.
2. Mix in powdered sugar, one cup at a time.
3. Mix in cocoa powder.