Hostess Style Cupcakes With White Dissent Collar Frosting 

 

Ingredients 

Cupcakes

• 1 cup flour
• 2/3 cup of good quality cocoa powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup milk (I use oat milk)
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp. white vinegar
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup hot coffee  

 

Filling

• 4 tbsp. butter at room temperature
• 1 cup marshmallow fluff
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

 

Ganache Topping

• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 4 oz. bittersweet chocolate chips

 

Icing

• 4 tbsp. butter at room temp.
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tsp. milk (I use oat milk)
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

Instructions  

Cupcakes 

1. Preheat oven to 350°F with a rack in the center. Line cupcake pan with liners and spray with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix the oil, milk, egg, vinegar, and vanilla. Whisk to combine.

3. Pour the liquids into the dry ingredients and whisk to combine.

4. Pour the hot coffee into the bowl and continue to whisk.

5. Pour this mixture evenly into the cupcake pan.

6. Bake about 18 minutes until the cupcakes are cooked through and a tester comes out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool for an hour.

 

Filling

1. Put the butter, marshmallow, and powdered sugar in a large bowl. Beat with a hand mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 - 5 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a piping bag fitted with a wide piping tip.

2. Insert the piping tip into the top of each cupcake and squeeze out some filling. Make sure the filling isn't sticking out of the top of the cupcake. 

 

Topping

1. Microwave the cream until it is steaming hot. Pour the cream over the chocolate and stir to combine. Allow it to settle and let the chocolate melt. After about 5 minutes if it isn't melted, you can microwave this mixture in 15 second increments to finish the melting process, but be patient and do not overheat or the chocolate will harden and you need to start over. 

2. Once the chocolate is warm and all melted to a smooth texture, spread the chocolate evenly over all the cupcakes. Try and make the tops as smooth and even as possible. Place the cupcakes into the fridge to cool.

 

Icing

1. Put the butter, sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl and beat with a hand mixer until fully combined and lightened in color. Transfer mixture to a piping bag fitted with a very narrow tip.

2. Pipe the icing onto the cupcakes in the lace pattern, starting with the circle in the middle, then about 20 lines curving from the center to the outside of the cupcake in a clockwise direction. Next, make 20 more lines, starting from the clockwise lines at the center, and curving in a counterclockwise direction, overlapping 2 of the clockwise lines, and meeting one of the clockwise lines at the edge of the cupcake.

3. This process will take patience, but I am a very amateur baker and was able to get the process down pretty quickly

 

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Recipe Inspiration: RBG was known for her love of desserts. This homemade version of a dessert favorite will be topped with her famous dissent collar instead of its typical frosting swirls. A sweet closing to a meal, as I feel no special meal is complete without a little bit of sugar!

 

 

 

 

Georgina Whalen is the food and lifestyle creator behind A Noted Life, a blog started twelve years ago to help her document memorable culinary moments and partnerships. A passionate racial equality champion and SLE advocate, (systemic lupus erythematosus, the most common type of lupus), Georgina uses her platform to engage in meaningful discourse, sharing her own experiences of inequality to help drive connection and insight. Find her on Instagram @georgina.whalen