Description
Soft chocolate cupcakes topped with tall homemade marshmallow frosting and dipped in a smooth semisweet chocolate shell. These Marshmallow Fluff Cupcakes look bakery-style, but the steps are simple when you chill the frosting well and work gently with the chocolate coating.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 baked and cooled cupcakes, from cake mix or your favorite cake recipe
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Dash of salt
- 2 egg whites
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
Instructions
- Bring the sugar, water, cream of tartar, and salt to a boil in a small saucepan. Heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Place the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer.
- With the mixer running on high speed, slowly pour the hot sugar mixture into the egg whites in a thin stream.
- Continue beating for 3 to 5 minutes, until the marshmallow frosting is glossy and forms stiff peaks.
- Transfer the cooled cupcakes to a cookie sheet.
- Spoon the marshmallow frosting into a piping bag fitted with a generous round tip.
- Pipe a tall dome of marshmallow frosting onto each cupcake.
- Chill the frosted cupcakes until the marshmallow frosting feels firm.
- Melt the semisweet chocolate chips, then stir in the canola oil until smooth.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into a deep bowl, making sure there is enough depth to dip the frosted cupcake tops.
- Working quickly and gently, dip each chilled frosted cupcake into the chocolate mixture to coat the marshmallow topping.
- Place the dipped cupcakes back on the cookie sheet and chill until the chocolate shell is set.
- Alternatively, spoon the melted chocolate over the marshmallow topping instead of dipping.
Notes
- Make sure the cupcakes are completely cooled before adding the marshmallow frosting.
- Use a deep bowl for the chocolate so the marshmallow dome can be dipped without pressing against the bottom.
- If the chocolate feels too hot, let it cool slightly before dipping so it does not soften the marshmallow.
- If dipping feels difficult, spoon the chocolate over the tops for an easier homemade finish.
- Prep Time: 45 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking, Boiling, Dipping
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 390
- Sugar: 38
- Sodium: 250
- Fat: 18
- Saturated Fat: 7
- Unsaturated Fat: 10
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 56
- Fiber: 2
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 25
