Chocolate Covered Pretzel Cupcakes Recipe

These Chocolate Covered Cherry Cupcakes combine rich chocolate and luscious cherry flavors, making them an elegant and easy dessert for Christmas or Valentine's Day. Made with simple ingredients like cake mix and cherry pie filling, they're a festive treat sure to impress!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cake mix cupcakes, cherry dessert recipes, chocolate cherry cupcakes, chocolate-covered cherry recipe, easy Valentine's desserts, festive holiday cupcakes, holiday cupcake ideas

Method Oven

Main Ingredient Grains

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 18

Total Time 28

Servings

Calories 361kcal

Author Kelli Miller

Equipment

Ingredients

Box Chocolate Cake + ingredients on the box
¾ Cup(s) Pretzels
1 Cup(s) Salted Butter softened at room temperature
4 Cup(s) Powdered Icing Sugar
½ Cup(s) Cocoa Powder
2-3 Tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 teaspoons Flaked Salt this can be optional
18 Chocolate-Covered Pretzels

Instructions

Preheat the oven according to the directions on the cake mix box.
Add the cupcake liners to the cupcake pan.
Make the cake mix as directed on the box.
Crush 1/2 cup of the pretzels and divide them evenly among the cupcake liners. Add 1/4 cup of the batter to each liner.
Put the cupcakes in the oven and bake as directed on the box.
Let the cupcakes cool.
To make the frosting, beat the powdered icing sugar, butter, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and milk. Taste and adjust as needed. (you can add more sugar, milk, etc.)
This part can be optional, but if you want to crush another 1/4 cup of pretzels into a fine powder and toast in a skillet for two minutes, this is a fun way to add a salted pretzel flavor to the frosting.
Scoop the frosting into a piping bag with a large star tip on the end, and swirl the frosting on top of the cooled cupcakes.
Add flaked salt and a chocolate-covered pretzel on top.

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