Grasshopper Cupcakes
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Updated Aug 10, 2023
If you're a fan of the minty, chocolately flavors of grasshopper cake, you'll love these adorable Grasshopper Cupcakes! Rich devil's food cupcakes are topped with minty frosting and crème de menthe chocolate candies to create an ultra-dreamy treat that can't be beat for St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Grasshopper Cupcakes
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- Prep Time 35 min
- Total 2 hr 0 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 24
Ingredients
- 1 box devil's food cake mix with pudding in the mix
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 4 drops green food color
- 24 thin rectangular crème de menthe chocolate candies, unwrapped, each cut in half crosswise
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Make cake mix into cupcakes as directed on box using water, oil and eggs. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step2In small bowl, reserve 1/2 cup frosting for garnish. Into remaining frosting, stir peppermint extract and food color until well blended. Frost cupcakes with green frosting.
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Step3Spoon 1 teaspoon reserved white frosting onto center of each frosted cupcake. Decorate each with 2 candy pieces, standing on edge.
Nutrition
220
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
29g
Total Carbohydrate
21g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cupcake
- Calories
- 220
- Calories from Fat
- 100
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 18%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 190mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 85mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 29g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 21g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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