chocolate cupcakes with flaming strawberries

How To Make chocolate cupcakes with flaming strawberries

• 1

  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2

  Sift together cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.
• 3

  Add eggs, water, heavy cream, oil and vanilla. Mix with a hand held mixer until smooth.
• 4

  Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each half full.
• 5

  Bake for 20 minutes. Let cool before frosting.
• 6

  FROSTING!!!! In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, cream together sugar, cocoa and butter; beginning on low speed then increase to high.
• 7

  Beat until fluffy and lightened in color.
• 8

  Transfer mixture to a piping bag fitted with a decorative tip. Frost cupcakes.
• 9

  Hollow the strawberries carefully. If you pierce the side of the strawberry accidentally, start with a new one. Since you'll be setting the liquor aflame, it is important that the strawberry is leak-proof.
• 10

  Set one strawberry atop each frosted cupcake. Fill strawberries with liquor just before lighting (see tips). If you need to light them all at once, (say, for a party) use a turkey baster to quickly fill all the strawberries and a grill lighter in lieu of matches.
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