Chocolate Kahlua Cupcakes

These fall under the heading of "Decadence is it's own reward". Don't let the picture deceive you. They don't photograph like the cupcakes that keep coming up on the side of my Facebook, however, they are very, very, very good.

Chocolate Kahlua Cupcakes

1 pkg. chocolate cake mix
1 sm. pkg. instant chocolate pudding
1tbs instant coffee
2 c. sour cream

4 eggs
3/4 c. oil
1/3 c. Kahlua
12 oz. chocolate chips

Pour a cup of coffee. Pour an extra 1 oz of the Kahlua in the coffee. If it’s the weekend skip the coffee. (It’s good to set limits somewhere.)
Combine all ingredients except the chocolate chips. (Pour a few in your hand and eat them.) *Do not give chocolate to the dog no matter how much he begs.

Mix well….Now fold in chips.
Bake in cupcake holders at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

WARNING this makes about 4 DOZEN cupcakes. So if you don't have a big party or a lot of coworkers waiting to test whatever you are making next on the list for 365 Day of Cooking With Alcohol...you might want to cut it down some.

OR: Pour it all into greased and floured (dusted with powdered chocolate is even better) bundt pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

I made 12 cupcakes and a bundt cake.

Frosting

I am not a huge sweet frosting fan. For these it was almost criminal to put frosting on them at all they were sooooooooo good.

For the sake of a nice finished photo; and frosting lovers, we compromised. Jerry chose Duncan Hines Cream Cheese Frosting. I took 4 tbs and dowsed it with a 1tbs Kahlua and 1 tsp barely moistened instant coffee. We blended it up, put it back in the fridge to re-solidify a bit and put it on some of the cupcakes. Turned out pretty dang good.

A nice sprig of mint on top and we are done! (I wanted to put Nopareils on top but couldn’t find them.)