Sugared Toasted Almond Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting.
Ugh. You know what I really want to do right now?
BESIDES gorge on tacos and watch a Felicty marathon while simultaneously going on a shoe shopping spree.*
Face plant into this frosting.
According to my cousin, it tastes “like E.L. Fudge filling on crack.” Remember E.L. Fudge? Um hello my favorite store bought cookie… ever. Well, maybe. I don’t know. Need to think about this one for a second. Really I think I’m just partial to them because Mother Lovett always had a package in her cupboard that also housed really old, yellowed recipes on newspaper, a can of Nestea to which she’d put six freaking scoops in a quart to make iced tea so sweet it would hurt your teeth and two boxes of oatmeal cream pies. Which I hated. But sort of loved. Then couldn’t stand. Then liked. I never really made up my mind about those. But I’m pretty sure I just wanted to like them since everybody else did.
So goes the mind of a first born child.
I hate to say it… but I wasn’t always a fan of the almond cake. My mom used to love this almond torte from our local grocery store when I was growing up and I’d enjoy a slice, but that was it… just a slice. After one slice, I was good for another year or so because you know I pretty much live by the motto “give me chocolate or give me death.” Oh and add peanut butter in there too. I could’ve cared less about some dumb almond stuff.
And wedding cakes… well, I’ve only been to handful that had almond cake, and mine was not one of them. Because of course I had to have over-the-top chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling and white chocolate frosting and white chocolate curls. Because I’m the queen of excess!
It’s true.
It wasn’t until I learned about almond cake with chocolate frosting that I figured out where I had went wrong all those years… the icing. On the cake. Literally. White frosting is not my number #1 choice, so almond cake with white frosting didn’t cut it. However, right about now it sounds freaking delicious but I think that’s because I just ate pretzels for dinner. So there’s that.
But almond cake with CHOCOLATE frosting?
This I can get behind. And on top of. And in the middle of.
Sugared Almond Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 2 large eggs
- 1 large egg white
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup milk
Frosting
- 3/4 cup (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-2 tablespoons milk, if needed
Sugared Toasted Almonds
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners. In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, egg white and sugar until smooth and combine. Gradually add melted butter while whisking constantly, then add in extracts. Stir in dry ingredients until well combined, then add in milk and stir until a smooth batter forms. Using a 1/4 cup measure or ice cream scoop, fill liners 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until cupcakes are set. Let cool completely.
Frosting
- In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the butter on medium speed until creamy. Gradually add in sugar and cocoa powder with the mixer on low, speeding up once combined. Add in extract and beat on medium, scraping down the sides if necessary, for 2-3 minutes. If frosting is too thick (I like mine thick), add milk 1 tablespoon at a time, beating for another minute or two to smooth it out. Repeat if necessary. If frosting isn’t thick enough to be spreadable, add a few spoonfuls of powdered sugar while beating until it thickens. Frost and top with sugared almonds below.
Sugared Toasted Almonds
- Heat a small skillet over medium heat and add almonds. Tossing and stirring constantly, toast for 1-2 minutes, just until almonds start to brown. Reduce heat to low and toss in sugar, stirring to coat. Stir constantly and cook for another minute, then remove and place almonds in a bowl. After a few minutes of cooling they will harden and you can break them apart and place on frosting.
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98 Comments on “Sugared Toasted Almond Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting.”
Shoe shopping spree? That’s my favorite :) Bring a cupcake and let’s go! haha.
Oh I loved those EL Fudge Cookies- they were so sweet and good! But if this is like them on crack then I need to try them!
Is it bad that I want one of these cupcakes for breakfast?
Now I want almonds, cookies, fudge, cupcakes, and oatmeal cookies. Which great because the doctor told me I was little underweight today. These cupcakes look scrumptious and most certainly bathe worthy!!!
This seems like the PERFECT dessert for yesterday’s pizza.
I can’t do the almond cupcake part but I’ll be slathering that frosting on anything that doesn’t move!
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el fudge yesssss. used to pretty much split a package with my friend in a sitting ugh.
Oh my gosh!! Your pictures look amazing! I want to grab a cupcake right now! Girl, you make the best cupcakes ever!! I made a batch of yours and I was told they were the best cupcakes!!!!
Felicity !!! I loved that show. And I think I will join you in that face plant!
I’ll let you faceplant into the frosting if I can do the same into the batter!! :)
EL FUDGE FILLING?! The best form of chocolate ever created. Probably full of bad stuff, but totally delicious.
I really like it when I have everything I need in the pantry to make stuff like this happen the second I see it. So excited.
Wowsers..these look so yum!! Remember the soft batch cookies in the red foil package? My favorite store bought cookie ever!!
I love that the frosting is as thick as the cake itself! :)
How do you frost them so beautifully with the hole in the middle??
I just use a spatula, plop it on the cake, go around the sides to sort of smooth it and then make a little circle on the top and twist!
YUM! These look like the kind of cupcakes I would lick the frosting off of and then eat the cupcake, or just keep eating frosting, whatever works! :)
I have been looking for a perfect chocolate frosting recipe and this one looks um…perfect!
Without sounding like a weirdo – – I’d like to live in your kitchen. I guess I can throw away sounding like a total weirdo … because I just did :$ but HOLY YUM! Can I just live in these cupcakes then?
Ahhh those EL Fudge Elfin cookies are like crack. I want to dive head first into a package of them right now. Or these cupcakes. Those would totally work too.
Oh dear lord I want this right now. Would it be unacceptable to bail on work to go home and make them??
Been staring at these for the past half hour. Going to make them for my birthday next week. Good God they look so good.
EL FUDGE COOKIES!! Wow….i remember those! They were sooo freaking good…i think I just had a food flashback! Count me in for a frosting face plant too!
Whoa, do those look like a prize this morning!
I could never keep these around my house I’d gorge on all of them!
These look amazing. Like hide in the closet with 3 or 4 amazing. And I totally remember the EL Fudge cookies……..so darn good.
Hello…now I want a cupcake for breakfast. Or a bowl of frosting…I’m good with either! I happen to like dense cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting, so let’s bring on the Felicity marathon!!!! You always remind me of all the shows I loved but forgot:-)
How can someone not love almond cupcakes or almond…anything? These look soo great. I would eat half a dozen and have no remorse. Really!
Felicity was the best show ever!!! It is on Netflix Watch Istantly and I’ve pretty much watched the entire series back to back twice. I love Ben.
These cupcakes look marvelous!! I love chocolate and almond together. Please send some my way!
Someone puhleeeease shove that cupcake in my face.
I’m pretty sure I could just drink almond extract. Is that weird?! It just smells so amazing! Love these!
Okay wait. I often taste the pure vanilla extract from Trader Joe’s because it’s like delicious vanilla syrup, but I accidentally taste the almond extract made with alcohol and almost threw up. Oh man. So not good.
Cupcakes plus shoe shopping is pretty much the perfect day, right? Especially if it means THESE cupcakes!
Oh my heavens girlfriend! Seriously? I’m in love with EL Fudge… completely. If these taste like those, I’m a HUGE fan already!
I have always loved E.L. Fudge cookies so I am going to put this on my “to make this weekend” list. Let’s hope I actually get to it this weekend!
I think I’m in love. Oh my goodness these look amazing.
OMGOSH!!! Totally my kind of cupcake!!!
This recipe is going to be hard to top, thanks!!
Yum. I’m all about the frosting and the almond topping. Who even likes cake?
Seriously.
I totally forgot about E.L. Fudge cookies! Can’t wait to try this recipe.
please open a cupcake bakery where i can come camp out and “taste test” your recipes ALL.DAY.LONG.
Hmmm, what about Dunkaroos? Totally all about applying my own frosting to each cookie! But the EL fudge were delicious as well. I am an almond cake lover. These sound spectacular!
Oh they look awesome and you always make the best cupcakes! They are all so perfect and pretty!
And I happen to LOVE oatmeal cream pies. I used to be able to take down nearly a box in like 2 days when I was a kid!
Almonds with chocolate, absolutely! i can´t understand white frosting except for cream cheese frosting. And Felicity marathons? You make me crack up Jessica!
Ditto. Cream cheese frosting is what dreams are made of.
The almonds on top speak to me
my eyes perked up at “Felicity marathon”. that is happening!
Yep. Totally taking a bath in the chocolate frosting.
(Confession: have been on a Grey’s Anatomy marathon since the boyfriend is out of town while gorging on corn bread. So very similar)
Totally appropriate.
Wow!
YUM.
*drooling here*
Must try.
Cupcakes and shoe shopping sprees….ahhhhhh that sounds so lovely :)
Oh my goodness. Almond. Don’t know what it is about almond-themed desserts, but I can’t get enough. Does that make me a grandma? Wonder if you’ve ever tried whole foods’ berry chantilly cake? It contains no chocolate, but it does have the most fluffy, almondy delicious frosting covered with more toasted almonds. And then stuffed with berries. As you would say… Ugh. Can’t get enough! haha.
It’s cool… I like grandmas.
i am OBSESSED with that EL fudge chocolate filling. My sisters and I would fight over the last EL fudge cookie! I have GOT to make this for them! And it’s one of their birthdays today. PERFECT!
I need these in my mouf. I love almond cake. Also, how do you do the frosting like that? It’s very Magnolia bakery and very irresistible.
OMG, now those cupcake photos are really what I like to call “Food Porn”!!! YUM! I want one now!!! I just want to make the frosting and grab a spoon!