Your new favorite chocolate cupcake recipe is right here! These German chocolate cupcakes are moist and tender, with a luscious chocolate frosting crowned by a sweet coconut pecan topping. They’re so easy to make, too — just whip them up in a single bowl. Add the ingredients, and let the electric mixer do the work! Fill your muffin pan with this five-minute batter and slide your pan into the oven. While your cupcakes are baking to confection perfection, start your two different and utterly delectable layers of frosting. Cooking the custard base for the coconut pecan topping takes about 15 minutes. Then, you’ll just swirl in the coconut and pecans. While that’s cooling, you can make the chocolate frosting. It’s a rich one, with semisweet chocolate, butter, cream cheese, cocoa powder and sugar. (As swoon-worthy as it tastes and as easily as it pipes onto the cupcakes, it’s surprisingly easy to prepare.) Then, just transfer it to a pastry bag fitted with a round or star tip. When your cooled cupcakes are ready for frosting, mound a tablespoon of the yummy coconut-pecan mixture on top of each cupcake. Pipe the chocolate frosting around the mound of coconut-pecan topping to hold it in place. Serve immediately (yes, please!) or store in an airtight container in a cool place for up to three days.
A little German chocolate cake history
German chocolate cake doesn’t actually come from Germany. The iconic cake actually got its name from American baker Samuel German, who developed a type of dark baking chocolate for the Baker’s Chocolate Company in 1852. The company named it Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate in honor of its creator. In 1957, a recipe for German’s chocolate cake appeared in the Dallas Morning News. The recipe was credited to Mrs. George Clay, a Dallas homemaker who used the Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate in the cake. “German’s chocolate cake” gained wild popularity throughout the United States and, eventually, the name was changed simplified to German chocolate cake.
Cupcakes are for celebrating
National German Chocolate Cake Day is June 11, which is just one more reason to enjoy the treats! Make a few batches of these for family and friends, who will love the mini-versions of the beloved German chocolate cake.
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Whisk dry ingredients together in mixing bowl
Add wet ingredients and continue to mix
Add sour cream to mixture
Fill muffin cups with batter
While cupcakes bake, combine topping ingredients in saucepan
Strain topping into mixing bowl
Add in coconut
Mix in chopped pecans
Combine all topping ingredients together
Melt chocolate for frosting
Stir chocolate between heating until smooth
Transfer chocolate to mixing bowl with butter and cream cheese
Remove cupcakes from oven and let cool
Place a tablespoon of coconut topping in center of each cupcake
Pipe frosting around edges
Beautifully done!
Looks too good to eat.
Perfect for serving at home or baking for a party!
Recipe inspired by Cooking Classy
Yield 12 cupcakes Courses Desserts
1/2 cup evaporated milk (regular fat)2 large egg yolks1/2 cup packed light brown sugar1/4 cup salted butter, diced into pieces1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract1 cup sweetened shredded coconut3/4 cup chopped pecans
Frosting
4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped6 tablespoon salted butter, softened3 ounces cream cheese, softened1-1/4 cups powdered sugar2-1/2 tablespoon cocoa powder2 to 4 teaspoons heavy cream, as needed
Topping: Frosting: To complete:
