These dear friends are hostess cupcakes, complete with the fluff filling and magical squiggle. I made these using a chocolate cake mix, but I fancied it up a bit, using an instant pudding mix, fat free Greek yogurt, along with water, oil and eggs. If you don’t have Greek yogurt, you can always use sour cream. My squiggle isn’t so much a squiggle, but a blob of a line. ☺. You can use whatever cake flavor you want, but just use a corresponding flavor pudding mix. I used jumbo cupcake liners here too! a reminder to preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
- Cupcake ingredients
- 1 cake mix
- 3.4 oz instant pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cup oil
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Cupcake Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a jumbo cupcake pan with jumbo cupcake liners. In a bowl combine cake mix, pudding mix, oil, eggs and water. Blend in Greek yogurt, then chocolate chips. Scoop put 1/2 cups of batter into each cupcake liner. Bake 13 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely
- Filling ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup marshmallow fluff
- 2-3 cups powdered sugar
- Milk
Filling Directions – combine butter, fluff and powdered sugar. Add milk, a tsp at a time, if you want to thin it out a bit.
- Frosting ingredients
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 2/3 cup baking cocoa
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbs milk
Frosting Directions – combine all ingredients
- Squiggle ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2-3 tsp milk
Squiggle Directions – blend well. Put in a small Ziploc baggie and cut off a small corner
Cut out a cone from the cup of each cupcake.
Set cone aside.
Fill the hole with fluff filling.
Replace cone, gently pushing in.
Frost.
Top with squiggle.
Store in covered container.
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