Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cupcakes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 129kcal

Author: Melanie Bauer | Melanie Makes

These Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cupcakes are incredibly dreamy and you shouldn’t go another minute without them in your life. A moist and decadent chocolate cupcakes is studded with chocolate chips and flecked with zucchini before being topped with a swirling mountain of my Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and mini chocolate chips.

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Ingredients

Cupcakes

1/2 cup butter softened
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1-3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 cup buttermilk
2-1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup chocolate chips + additional for topping

Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

1 recipe Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting prepared
mini chocolate chips to garnish

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Line cupcake tin with paper liners.
Mix all ingredients together.
Using a medium ice cream scoop, fill each liner.
Sprinkle tops of cupcake batter with additional chocolate chips.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted removes cleanly.
Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.

Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Frost cupcakes with frosting and garnish with mini chocolate chips

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