Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Dulce de Leche Filling and Salted Chocolate Buttercream

My husband and I decided to start making videos for my blog. Videos have been extremely popular for a while now and we finally decided that we wanted to make some videos as well. The problem for me has always been time, because videos are quite time consuming. Between actually shooting the video and then editing, it could take a few hours, and even days, to present a finished video.

Since my husband is a huge fan of making videos and always makes a ton of home-videos for us, he really wanted to help me with this project. With the two of us, time doesn’t present as much of a problem anymore. We also wanted to make videos that stand out, that are not like the “ever-so-popular” food videos that have been populating social media lately. You know, the ones that show recipe preparation from above, where you see hands adding the ingredients in, and so on. I like watching those videos as much as the next person, but we wanted to do something a little different with our videos.

My husband has been messing around with some stop motion animation for our home videos, so we thought it could be a fun idea. We also decided to make our videos funny and more for entertainment purposes, rather than straight cooking videos. We’ve only done a couple videos so far, so we are still in a learning stages of our project. I hope you will stick around to see how we progress with our fun food videos.

Ingredients

• Chocolate Cupcakes:
• 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1½ cups of hot water
• 2½ cups of flour
• 1¼ cup of sugar
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 3 eggs room temperature
• ¾ cups of vegetable oil
• ½ cup sour cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• Filling:
• About 3/4 of 13.4 oz can of dulce de leche
• About 2 Tbsp coarse salt for filling and frosting
• Chocolate Buttercream:
• 16 oz butter room temperature
• 2-3 cups of powder sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 5 oz dark semi-sweet chocolate melted and cooled a little

Instructions
Cupcakes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Lightly spray cupcake pan with cooking spray and line it with cupcake liners.
2. In a small sauce pot, mix water with unsweetened cocoa powder. Bring to a low boil. Cook for about a minute and set aside to cool.
3. In a bowl of an electric mixer, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until combined.
4. .....................................

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