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Chocolate Cupcakes with Penuche Filling

A layer of penuche creates frosted chocolate cupcakes reminiscent of a delicious mini layered cake.

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Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 2 hr 40 min
Servings 24

Ingredients

: Reynolds™ Baking Cups

Cupcakes

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® chocolate fudge cake mix

: Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

1: teaspoon vanilla

Filling and Garnish

1: cup butter or margarine

2: cups packed brown sugar

1/2: cup milk

4: cups powdered sugar

1: oz grated semisweet baking chocolate, if desired

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place Reynolds Baking Cups in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and cool cupcakes as directed on box for 24 cupcakes--except add vanilla to batter.
2 Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly; reduce heat to low. Boil and stir 2 minutes. Stir in milk. Heat to boiling; remove from heat. Pour mixture into medium bowl; refrigerate 1 hour or until lukewarm, about 90°F.
3 Beat powdered sugar into cooled brown sugar mixture with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. If filling becomes too stiff, stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time. If filling is too soft, cover; return to refrigerator 15 minutes to firm up.
4 Remove Reynolds Baking Cups from cupcakes. Using serrated knife, cut each cupcake in half horizontally, being careful not to break either half. Place heaping 1 tablespoon filling on each cupcake base. Replace rounded cupcake tops. Pipe or spoon rounded 1 tablespoon frosting onto cupcake tops. Garnish with grated chocolate. Store in airtight container at room temperature.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

Reynolds StayBrite Baking Cups are fashion-inspired designs that won’t fade during baking.

The word penuche comes from a Mexican word meaning "raw sugar" or "brown sugar." It is used to describe a fudgelike candy made from brown sugar, butter, milk or cream and vanilla.

It's important to refrigerate the cooked brown sugar mixture to lukewarm (about 90°F). This will give you the proper consistency when the powdered sugar is beaten in.

If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Cupcake

Calories: 340
Calories from Fat: 120),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 14g; 14%
(Saturated Fat 6g, 6% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 45mg; 45%;
Sodium: 230mg; 230%;
Total Carbohydrate: 53g; 53%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 45g 45% ),
Protein: 2g; 2%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 6%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 6%;
Iron: 4%;

Exchanges:

1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

3 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 8/30/2012 7:57:33 AM REPORT ABUSE a_ches said:

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I decided to make these cupcakes for my dads birthday and to be quite honest, I didnt love them. The only person that actually "liked" these were my Dad. Before you make these make sure you know that it has a very mature flavor that not many people enjoy. It was a good cupcake- as all of Betty Crocker's are, but the frosting was much to strong for everyone else.

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Posted 8/25/2012 5:02:56 AM REPORT ABUSE

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My husband is gletun free and I am not and I am often disappointed in the taste of certain gletun free products. Carol's flour blend and her recipes are amazing and you can't even tell that you are eating gletun free! The cheesecake recipe is AMAZING best cheesecake I have EVER had EVER. Such a good selection of dessert recipes, I have no reason to ever bake with gletun again!

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Posted 2/19/2012 7:31:36 AM REPORT ABUSE Sjt89 said:

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These cupcakes look like such a great idea...but I'm having no end of trouble with the frosting. Followed the recipe to a T but the frosting refuses to set even though I've left it in the fridge overnight and just falls off the cupcakes. Now, this is probably entirely my fault so I will be attempting these again. For now, I've managed to salvage the situation by scooping a small amount of the 'frosting' into each cupcake as a filling and then spreading a thin layer on top as a sort of glaze. I do agree with the other members though - adding some sort of coffee flavouring would really make this recipe pop!

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