Valentine’s Day Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon Hearts
These Valentine's Day Cupcakes are a delicious combo of dark chocolate and spicy cinnamon heart candies. If you like cinnamon hearts, you will LOVE these!
These Valentine's Day Cupcakes are moist, dark chocolate cupcakes infused with spicy cinnamon hearts flavor. Seriously, can you think of anything more delicious? Ya, me neither.
Do you know how some things just scream Valentine's Day? Like those Valentine cut-out cards that are exchanged by seven-year-olds in grade two. Do they still do that? Or heart-shaped candies that say ‘Be mine' and ‘I heart you.' Seems they now also say 'email me' which makes me laugh more than I think it should. Or fiery red cinnamon hearts that seem to have resisted any change since I was a child.
Mmm … cinnamon hearts. If Valentine's Day were a flavor, this is what it would taste like.
I'll never know why it took me so long to marry cinnamon hearts with dark chocolate. They really do deserve to be together. Forever.
The dark chocolate holds its own without overpowering the cinnamon. And while the cinnamon hearts are certainly the most outspoken of the two, they manage to not take over the dark chocolate. If they were a real-life couple, they'd make the perfect team.
These little guys had me proclaiming my love for them after the first bite. Whatever your plans are for Valentine's Day, please, please, please, include these dark chocolate and cinnamon hearts cupcakes in them.
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Valentine's Day Cupcakes: Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon Hearts
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoons black cocoa powder, see notes
- 6 tablespoons whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large egg white
Cinnamon Icing
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup cinnamon hearts, ground in food processor
- ⅓ teaspoon cinnamon oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake tin with paper or silicone liners.In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and both the cocoa powders.¾ cup all-purpose flour, ¾ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, 3 tablespoons black cocoa powder
- In a large bowl, beat the whipping cream, butter, melted chocolate, cinnamon oil, eggs, and egg white.6 tablespoons whipping cream, 3 tablespoons butter, ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate, ½ teaspoon cinnamon oil, 2 large eggs, 1 large egg white
- Whisk flour mixture into wet ingredients until just smooth.
- Pour batter into prepared tins and bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cinnamon Icing
- With an electric mixer, cream together butter, icing sugar, ground cinnamon hearts, and cinnamon oil.½ cup butter, 2 cups powdered sugar, ½ cup cinnamon hearts, ⅓ teaspoon cinnamon oil
- Use a knife or a pastry bag to decorate the cupcakes. Add an extra (or many extra) cinnamon hearts on top.
What do you do if you can’t find cinnamon oil?
You can omit it, but the cupcakes won’t have that cinnamon hearts flavor – except in the frosting. Ground cinnamon isn’t a good substitute as it tastes very different. If you can’t find any, omit it and enjoy the chocolaty cupcakes. 🙂
These little hearts are super duper cute! Dark chocolate and cinnamon sounds so good together 🙂
Pinned, need to make these soonish!
Thank you! They really are super tasty. 🙂
I will take any excuse to eat chocolate (not that I needed one)… these cupcakes are so fun! Have a happy valentine’s day next week! <3
Any excuse is a good excuse! Happy Valentine’s Day to you, too!
look very beautiful, good cupcakes for valentine’s day
Thank you. 🙂
Ooh, the perfect way to say I love your dark, dark heart this V=Day! 😉
Oh hell ya it is!
I just love those little cinnamon heart candies! I will definitely have to try this recipe before valentine’s day 🙂
These look sooooo amazing!! I want to eat them right now……I guess I am off to buy some ingredents, Thanks so much for this idea
Love that my post has you running to the grocery store. Best compliment ever. Let me know how you like them!
Hi Sarah,
To be honest this was the first time that I used silicone liners to bake cupcakes too. I did have to bake them for a few minutes longer that the original recipe called for. It is hard to say if that was because I changed the recipe or my oven temp was a little off or if it was because of the silicone liners.
Btw: your lavender and lemon cupcakes look amazing!
These cupcakes are super cute. I just used my silicon cupcake liners for the first time this weekend – do you find the silicon liners bake the cupcakes differently or that you need to adjust the baking time a bit?