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    Home / Recipes / Cakes, Pies & Cupcakes

    Chocolate Dipped Cupcakes

    Feb 3, 2021 · Updated: Apr 18, 2023 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    Chocolate dipped cream filled cupcakes (hi top cupcakes) with a chocolate or vanilla filling center and snappy chocolate coating just like a Dairy Queen cupcake. My cupcake is dairy free, gluten-free and vegan.
    a dipped cupcake with a bite taken out

    These chocolate filled cupcakes resemble the famed Hi Top cupcakes, the Dairy-Queen treat, and even memories of Hostess cupcakes for which I have a homemade recipe. These cupcakes are best of two worlds, a cream white center with a delicious homemade magic shell on top. And they are healthier, with no eggs and no oil.

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    • Ingredients
    • Steps To Bake
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    Why You'll Love These

    Look Fancy, But Easy to Make. Just back the delicious fluffy cupcakes, frost and freeze. That's the trick to easy dipping.

    A Healthy Dip. The magic shell chocolate casing on this cupcake is not the store-bought additive-filled product. Instead, it is dark chocolate mixed with healthy coconut oil. The MCTs in coconut oil are healthy and beneficial fats.

    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes

    Ingredients

    • Flour: I used all-purpose flour or a GF baking flour. Oat flour would also work, but use more, 1 ¾ cups.
    • Cocoa: The hot chocolate flavor depends heavily on the cocoa you choose. Choose the best quality you have access to, I highly recommend using Dutch process. Do not use a cocoa mix which has many other ingredients and will ruin the cupcake texture.
    • Sugar: Organic cane sugar tastes much better than refined white sugar because it is much less processed, and is without exposure to pesticides. Being less processed, the sugar retains more nutrients, including essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins.
    • Pumpkin Puree & Apple Sauce: These two ingredients basically replace eggs and oil, although you can replace the apple sauce with more pumpkin puree.
    • Leaveners: baking powder and baking soda
    • Milk & Lemon Juice: My favorite way to provide lift to cakes
    • Other Essentials: salt and quality vanilla extractoverhead of filled cupcakes ingredients

    Steps To Bake

    1. Preheat your oven to 350 F, Line a cupcake pan with 12 paper liners, and activate your milk by adding lemon juice to it and let it sit for 5 minutes.

    2. To the large mixing bowl, add the wet ingredients and mix until smooth. Add the dry ingredients through a strainer. Add the dry to the wet mixture, and mix until combined, but don't overmix.

    3. Add the batter about ¾ full to each cupcake liner using a medium cookie scoop.

    hot chocolate cupcakes

    4. Bake cupcakes for 18 minutes. Or until tester comes out clean.

    5. Let cool for ten minutes, then put cupcakes on a cooling rack and allow to cool.

    6. Make a vanilla frosting while the cupcakes cool.

    7. Pip a tower of vanilla on each cupcake, freeze them. The dip each cupcake frosting tower in a chocolate glaze.

    overhead of baking steps of dipped cupcakes

    Recipe Tips

    Piping The Chocolate Dipped Cupcakes. I use the Wilton 1A large round tip for this recipe. The round tip allows me to pipe a circular mountain on top suitable for dipping. If you are going to use a piping tip, you'll also need frosting bags. You can buy them at any grocery store or even online.

    How to Make A Homemade Magic Shell. This version is so easy, just melt together quality chocolate chips and coconut oil. Let the melted chocolate sit to cool about 15 minutes. Freeze the cupcakes after you frost them, and then dip them quickly into the melted chocolate. The frozen frosting on the cupcakes helps the shell freeze quickly.

    How to Customize Filled Cupcakes. There are so many ways to customize filled cupcakes. You can make different frostings, even mix both chocolate and vanilla for a marble filling effect. And the magic shell can be other flavors. Here I have other magic shell recipes, including peanut butter magic shell and vanilla magic shell.
    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes
    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes
    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes
    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes
    Chocolate Dipped Cream Filled Cupcakes

    a chocolate dipped cupcake cut in half

    How to Store

    Cupcakes that are filled and coated last at least one day at room temperature. After that I would refrigerate them. They don't dry out; mine lasted 4 days refrigerated before the cake began to dry.

    Other Cupcake Recipes

    • Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
    • Hostess Cupcakes
    • Chocolate Cupcakes
    • Lemon Cupcakes (with lemon curd)

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    📖 Recipe

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    Chocolate Dipped Cupcakes

    Created by Dee Dine
    A delicious dairy free chocolate dipped cupcake that tastes like devil's food cake and is delicious with vanilla cream cheese frosting and dipped Dairy Queen style.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 35 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12
    Calories 588 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    Devil's Food Cupcakes

    • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour or a gluten-free baking flour
    • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
    • 1 cup organic cane sugar
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup dairy-free milk
    • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
    • ⅓ cup sweet potato puree Or pumpkin puree or apple sauce
    • 3 tablespoon aquafaba the liquid from a can of chickpeas, or use apple sauce
    • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract

    Two Frostings:

      1. Vanilla Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting

      • ¼ cup vegan butter
      • ¼ cup vegan cream cheese
      • 2 cups organic powdered sugar

      2. 2-Ingredient Chocolate Ganache

      • 2 ½ cups dark chocolate
      • 1 cup full fat coconut milk from a can, not refrigerated, shaken
      • ½ teaspoon of vanilla
      • pinch of salt

      Coating cupcakes

      • 1 cup chocolate chips
      • 2 tablespoon coconut oil, avocado oil, olive oil
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      Instructions
       

      Prep

      • Preheat your oven to 350 F.
      • Measure out aquafaba.
      • Line a cupcake pan with 12 liners.
      • Sift together the flour and cocoa.
      • Activate your milk by adding the lemon juice to it and stirring so it curdles. This creates a mixture that activates the baking soda and creates a lovely moist crumb.

      Make cupcakes

      • To the large mixing bowl, add the flour/cocoa mixture, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Use a hand mixer or just a spoon or whisk to combine these dry ingredients.
        1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 cup organic cane sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt
      • Add in the curdled milk, veggie puree, flax egg (or aquafaba) and vanilla.
        1 cup dairy-free milk, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, ⅓ cup sweet potato puree, 3 tablespoon aquafaba, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
      • Mix with a hand-mixer or hand whisk until combined, but don't overmix.
      • Pour the batter evenly into cupcake liners. Fill each ¾ of the way for a slight dome.
      • Bake for 22 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
      • Let cool completely before frosting.

      Make Chocolate Frosting

      • Add the chocolate chips to a pyrex measuring cup.
      • Warm the coconut milk in the microwave for 60 seconds. Pour the milk over the chocolate chips and stir until all are melted. If need be, microwave the mixture again for 30 seconds. Stir in the vanilla and salt.
        2 ½ cups dark chocolate, 1 cup full fat coconut milk, ½ teaspoon of vanilla, pinch of salt

      Make Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

      • Blend ingredients together until creamy.
        ¼ cup vegan butter, ¼ cup vegan cream cheese, 2 cups organic powdered sugar

      Frost Cupcakes to Coat

      • Frost cupcakes using a large round tip (Wilton 1A). Spiral it up into a mountain. Then freeze the cupcakes about 30 minutes to an hour to allow the frosting to solidify so it doesn't fall off when you dip it into the coating shell.

      Make and Apply Chocolate Magic Shell

      • Melt the chips in a glass pyrex measuring cup at 60 seconds in the microwave. Add in the oil and stir until all is melted. Let the melted chocolate sit about 20 minutes to cool but not enough to solidify.
        1 cup chocolate chips, 2 tablespoon coconut oil, avocado oil, olive oil
      • Dip each frozen cupcake and allow coating to set.

      Notes

      Piping The Chocolate Dipped Cupcakes. I use the Wilton 1A large round tip for this recipe. The round tip allows me to pipe a circular mountain on top suitable for dipping. If you are going to use a piping tip, you'll also need frosting bags. You can buy them at any grocery store or even online.
      How to Make A Homemade Magic Shell. This version is so easy, just melt together quality chocolate chips and coconut oil. Let the melted chocolate sit to cool about 15 minutes. Freeze the cupcakes after you frost them, and then dip them quickly into the melted chocolate. The frozen frosting on the cupcakes helps the shell freeze quickly.
      How to Customize Filled Cupcakes. There are so many ways to customize filled cupcakes. You can make different frostings, even mix both chocolate and vanilla for a marble filling effect. And the magic shell can be other flavors. Here I have other magic shell recipes, including peanut butter magic shell and vanilla magic shell.

      Nutrition

      Calories: 588kcalCarbohydrates: 80gProtein: 8gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 17gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.03gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 261mgPotassium: 480mgFiber: 7gSugar: 53gVitamin A: 1766IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 105mgIron: 8mg
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      1. Vivian

        April 01, 2023 at 9:49 am

        5 stars
        I love this recipe, I used it for my mom's Birthday and it was so good

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        • Dee Dine

          April 01, 2023 at 12:15 pm

          That's great, thanks for your feedback!

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