Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes with Butter - cream

Everyone deserves a treat!

 

Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes with Butter - cream:

1 1/2 cup milk
1 pkg. pudding to cook
If you use a German Pudding package, you use:
300 ml Milch
1 päckchen Vanille Pudding
75g Zucker

Cook the pudding according to the directions on the back and let it cool.


1cup sour cherries plus 12 to decorate the cupcakes ( 150 g Sauerkirschen + 12 für die deco)
1/3  plus 2/3 cup butter, room temperature ( 250 g weiche Butter )
1/2 cup sugar (100 g Zucker )
2 tsp. vanilla sugar or about 1 tsp vanilla aroma ( 1 pk. Vanilla Zucker )
1 pinch of salt ( 1 prise Salz )
3 eggs ( 3 Eier )
1 cup flour (150 g Mehl )
2 tsp. baking powder (1 teel. Backpulver )
1 tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder ( 1 Eß. Kakaupulver )
muffin liners ( Papierförmchen )

Preheat the oven to 350 F ( 175 C )
Line Muffin tins and set aside.
Beat together 2/3 cup butter, sugar, vanilla sugar ( vanilla aroma ) and salt, until creamy. Add the eggs one by one and mix well. Mix together flour and baking powder and add slowly to the butter mix, beat continuously until the batter is creamy.
Fill half of the batter into the muffin cups and divide the cherries evenly over the light batter.
Take the other half of the batter and stir in the cocoa powder. Now, divide the chocolate batter evenly between the muffin cups on top of the cherries and light batter.
Bake for about 20 minutes. Let them cool on a wire rack.

While the cupcake are cooling, take the rest of the butter ( 1/3 cup) and beat it to a creamy consistency adding the cool, thick pudding.
With a large star tip, pipe on the cooled cupcake and decorate with a cherry. Makes 12 Cupcakes.

What a treat!