Soft and dreamy hot chocolate cupcakes topped with marshmallows and filled with melted Heshey’s Mint Kiss centers. A kid-friendly, easy cupcake recipe!
I had so much fun creating this hot chocolate cupcake 🙂 Hot chocolate is the best during the winter so why not add it to your cupcakes?! Talk about a dreamy, soft chocolate cupcake with a surprise mint truffle-kissed center. These are truly to die for….can’t wait for you guys to give these a try. Can you practically taste the toasted marshmallows on top? Mmmm!
Have fun whipping these up with your family. They’ll be a huge hit 🙂 Happy baking!
Here’s your line up!
Feel free to use any brand of hot chocolate mix, even your own recipe is A-OK 🙂
Make a small cup of hot chocolate for the cupcake batter. Just warm milk, not hot!
Pour in!
This is some good batter 🙂
Fill your cupcake liners up….
Break out your mint kisses or even the candy cane ones work 🙂
Mmmmm!
Press a kiss in centers of cupcakes and time to bake.
Pretty!
Top with marshmallows and bake some more.
Until they look like this 🙂
Stick a trimmed straw inside for a little decoration and time to EAT!
Mint Kissed Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 Devils Food Cake Mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 small box instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup warm milk mixed with 1 packet hot chocolate mix
- 24 mint truffle kisses (or the Candy Cane ones work great too)
- 3-4 cups mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place cake mix, eggs, oil, pudding mix, sour cream and mixed hot chocolate into a stand mixer on medium speed. Mix until well combined, about 1 1/2 minutes.
- Scoop into 24 paper lined muffin tins about 3/4 full. Place a mint truffle kiss into center of each cupcake pressing to bottom.
- Bake for 18 minutes, remove and top with marshmallow.
- Return back to oven and bake for an additional 5 minutes or until marshmallows are puffed and just starting to brown.
- Remove and let cool. You can place a cut straw into each cupcake if desired to decorate.
Nutrition
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Hope you enjoy! Have a great rest of your week!!
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These are some of the cutest lil cupcakes ever. And I love hot chocolate with marshmallows on top. Yummy!
Another amazing recipe!!!
How on earth do you come up with these recipes?! Everytime I read your blog I print off the recipes. I love them! I drool when I read them! Then have to go to the store to get the ingredients. Thanks for such wonderful ideas. This one will be so much fun to do!
I made these today for my kids teacher gifts, and filled the bottom of the mugs with treats to help hold the cupcake up.(and a side note is…my mallows were a tiny bit stale but they still worked, and they held their shape perfectly so they just look toasted) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! They are amazing!
How cute!!! I just got a bunch a mint kisses as a gift and now I know what to do with them :).
Those look yummy!! You’re so creative!!
Jenny, these are so brilliant! Love the toasted marshmallows on top. Can’t wait to try these! 🙂
Adorable! The photo just makes me want to smile!
They look delicious.
WOW! I am not sure I’d like the mint though so I might try a different ‘kiss’. I do know some who would though, and I am forwarding them this link 🙂 You are so creative!!!! ((LOVE!))
Those look amazing!!!! I love hot chocolate!
with love and cupcakes,
Cookteen
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YUM!! I’m afraid if I open up my bag of cookies, I’ll just eat them all! But these look like the perfect way to bake with them.
These are absolutely adorable!
I can’t wait to try these for my next holiday party.
Cheers!
Jenny – I don’t know how you do it – but every recipe knocks my socks off! You are amazing! I will be making this for my party next week!
♥Lori
omgosh these look DELICIOUS!!! You are EVVVVVILLLL!!!
Jenny, this is the greatest idea & so festive too!! Love the mint kisses in the center. The straw is adorable 🙂 XO
Oh my gosh – a cupcake on top of a cup of hot cocoa – every child (and adult’s) winter dream!
Jenny – these just look AMAZING! I am absolutely making…but with Nestle hot cocoa and dark chocolate/mint morsels. 🙂 Your photography is always so appetizing…you do great work! Happy holidays to you and family!
Chris
These look delicious. I have a student with a birthday before we go into Christmas break next week, I think I will make these for her treat. I am sure the extras will be devoured in the teacher’s loung if my husband does not get to them before hand.
Wow.. So you said you had fun making them, but how much fun did you have eating them? That is always something I enjoy trying them after creating something cool like these. Have a great day
Lew
Aren’t those the cutest things?
yum!!! These look awesome. i love how creative you are 🙂
FABULOUS!!!!
Yum! I’m so glad I can always count on you to post recipes for stuff that I’ll likely already have…and mint truffle kisses..I totally have them! 🙂 Thanks!!
love love love this idea! You are amazing 🙂
This looks fun! Jenny I have so much fun with your recipes. I need to eat gluten free and most of your recipes I am able to convert. This will be another one to try YEAH!
these are SO adorable! perfect for holiday dinner parties 🙂
You amaze me with your creativity! These are perfect for kids of all ages 🙂
These look yummy! Did you use a mini-muffin pan or a regular one? I just ask because my regular pan is only 12 and your picture is a 24 count pan. Thanks!!!
Hi Heather, I used a regular size muffin pan 🙂 I have a very LARGE regular size muffin pan that I got from William Sonoma, use it all the time 🙂
Thanks!
These are super cute!
INNOVATION at its best 🙂 Can you please turn that tempting straw, want to have a sip…Simply awesome. Love it.
How FUN!!!! And I love the minty little surprise in the center!
what a fabulous presentation! love this!
awesomeness !! I am so trying these , soon !!
Wow, wow, wow. This is brilliant, one of the most creative recipes I ever encountered. I definitely would try this one out!
Genius!!! I think I have everything in my pantry for these! Thanks:)
love the recipe….thanks!