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HERSHEY'S HUGS and KISSES Secret Admirer Cupcakes

Details

Time
40 minutes
Skill Level
Intermediate
Yields
30 cupcakes

Get those Valentine's Day Cupcakes ready! These creamy cupcakes are filled with chocolate and white chips, topped with a sweet pink frosting. Try them now!

Ingredients & Directions

Prep Time
20 minutes
Bake Time
20 minutes

BAKE MODE:

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup
    butter or margarine, softened (125 mL)
  • 1/2 cup
    vegetable shortening (125 mL)
  • 2 cups
    granulated sugar (500 mL)
  • 2
    eggs
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla extract (5 mL)
  • 2 1/4 cups
    all-purpose flour (550 mL)
  • 1/2 cup
    HERSHEY'S Cocoa (125 mL)
  • 1 1/4 tsps
    baking soda (6 mL)
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt (2 mL)
  • 1 1/3 cups
    water (325 mL)
  • 45
  • 45
    HERSHEY'S HUGS Brand Milk Chocolates, unwrapped and divided
  • 1 lb
    prepared vanilla frosting (500 g)
  • red food colouring (optional)

Directions

Equipment Needed 
oven Oven
muffin tin Muffin Tin
paper baking cups Paper Baking Cups
measuring cups Measuring Cups
mixing bowl Mixing Bowl
mixer Mixer
wire rack Wire Rack
1

Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 30 muffin cups with paper or foil liners.

2

Beat the butter with the shortening and sugar in large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Stir flour with cocoa, baking soda and salt; add alternately with water to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Fill muffin cups 1/2 full with batter. Place 1 HERSHEY'S KISS or 1 HERSHEY'S HUG on surface of each cup; do NOT press candy into batter.

3

Bake for 20 to 23 minutes or until tops spring back when touched lightly. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.

4

Stir frosting with several drops red food colouring (if using) for desired shade of pink frosting. Frost cupcakes. Top each cupcake with 1 HERSHEY'S KISS and 1 HERSHEY'S HUG.