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Chocolate Covered Bacon Cupcakes

Chocolate Covered Bacon Cupcakes

A delicious moist chocolate cupcake/cake perfect for any event. The flavour combination of sweet and salty is truly decadent. 

Course Dessert
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Author Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel

Ingredients

  • 10 pieces of cooked bacon crumbled
  • 1.5 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp baking soda
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 3 cups white sugar
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1.5 cups milk + 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 1.5 cups hot water

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350C.
  2. Measure milk in a measuring cup and add lemon juice to it. Set aside.
  3. In a stand mixer bowl add cocoa, salt, flour, baking soda, sugar and baking powder and mix to combine.
  4. Add vegetable oil, milk and lemon juice mixture, vanilla and eggs and beat together until smooth.
  5. Add hot water being VERY Careful as it liquifies the mixture which can splash out of the mixer bowl.
  6. Once fulling combined divide among cupcake liners filling 3/4 full.
  7. Sprinkle half of the crumbled bacon (5 pieces) on top of uncooked cupcakes.

  8. Place in oven and bake for 40 minutes or until an insert toothpick comes out clean.
  9. Let cool, ice and top with sea salt and the remainder of the crumbled bacon.