Decadent, moist, made from scratch chocolate cupcakes topped with the best marshmallow buttercream frosting and made to look like a bonfire! Cutest ever campfire dessert.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 18 minutesminutes
Total Time 38 minutesminutes
Servings 14cupcakes
Author Sarah
Ingredients
For Chocolate Cupcakes
1cupall purpose flour
1 cupgranulated sugar
1/2cupunsweetened cocoa powder
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonbaking soda
1/2teaspoonsea salt
1largeeggat room temperature
1/2cupbuttermilkat room temperature
1/2cupolive oil or avocado oil
1teaspoonvanilla
1/2cupvery hot water
For Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting
3cupspowdered sugar
1cupsalted butter
17ozcontainer marshmallow cream
2teaspoonsvanilla
2decorating bagswith star tips
red and yellow gel food coloring
For Decorating
pretzel sticks
toothpicks
mini marshmallows
cupcake liners
Instructions
For the chocolate cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
Combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl and mix together.
Combine the egg, buttermilk, oil and vanilla in another bowl and whisk together. Add the wet ingredients (except the hot water) to the dry ingredients and mix together using a stand mixer until combined.
Add the hot water to the batter and mix again until combined. Batter will be thin.
Fill cupcake liners only 1/2 full and bake for 18-21 minutes or until the tops bounce back when you touch them or a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.
For Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting
Mix together butter, marshmallow cream and vanilla.
When completely mixed add the powdered sugar to the bowl. Mix until the marshmallow buttercream frosting is smooth.
For Decorating
Divide the frosting into two bowls. Color one of the bowls with red gel food coloring and the other bowl with yellow gel food coloring.
Place the icing into a piping bag with a star tip, adding small dollops at a time alternating between red and yellow colors to create the fire effect in the frosting.
Spear mini marshmallows with toothpicks and decorate tops of cupcakes with pretzels broken in half to look like a campfire.