Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache and Marshmallow Frosting

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These cupcakes are great! I didn't make the marshmallow, but the cake and ganache were enough. As other reviewers mentioned, the cake batter was quite runny. I cooked them about 12 minutes in a convection oven at 325. The cupcakes were moist and airy (I cut back the sugar a bit. I'd recommend cooling the ganache so you can frost with it rather than "dipping" the cupcakes in it. I will make these again!

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I'm an average baker at best, so I followed the recipe exactly. I was a little worried at the end after adding the water because it made the batter so runny, but they turned out great after baking about 12 minutes.

Not sure why there were a few 'horrible' ratings, maybe they didn't follow the recipe? And by the way, wasn't this the recipe of the baker on Cupcake Wars, not Food Network? Don't be a hater.

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i made these minus the marshmellow. The cupcake itself seemed watery prior to baking. I had to add about three extra minutes to the baking time but when the toothpick came clean, they were finished baking and SUPER moist. Everyone loved them and I will absolutely make them again.

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I usually don't review recipes but I liked this one so much I thought I'd share my experience. I love Cupcake Wars so I was excited to try this recipe but skeptical after reading some of the reviews. The batter is very liquidy and some of them did sink in the middle, that doesn't matter to me though because I figure the frosting will cover it up. It seemed that the cupcakes with less batter sunk the most, but they were all super moist and yummy. I baked mine for about 25 minutes. The ganache is fantastic, I used it as a filling instead of on top. The marshmallow frosting is awesome too!!! They were a big hit at home and at work. I will definetly use this recipe again!

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These were fantastic. Extremely moist and flavourful. From now on, when I make chocolate cupcakes I will only make these!

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Hey look, it's Ina Garten's "Beatty's Chocolate Cake" recipe, but with slightly different baking soda/ baking powder ratios, half and half instead of buttermilk, and boiling water instead of coffee. I would recommend you do Ina's recipe instead of this one. The trick to not having them fall is to bake them a little longer than a cake. They'll pass the toothpick test at 190 degrees. You want to bake them more to 210 degrees, that's pretty standard for cupcakes. Oh and try not to open the oven too early. If you want to cheat, put a meat thermometer that has a probe which you can stick in the oven and monitor externally, into one of the cupcake holes. Take them out at 210. Do this and you drastically reduce the chance of them falling in the middle. In response to some others, the batter is supposed to be very liquidy, and 1 tbs of vanilla is perfectly acceptable, I use that. Volumetric measurements are notoriously innacurate, so use 8 1/4 oz flour, 14 1/2 oz sugar, 2 1/2 oz cocoa.

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Wow. I like how some people try one recipe they don't like and are quick to issolating food network away from their browser. This isn't a food network recipe, it was from cupcake wars, a show where people around the states (with their own cupcake stores submit their own recipes they make up given certain parameters and ingredients. Again, this is not a food network recipe. Let's all think shall we?

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i used buttermilk instead of half and half and vegitable oil instead of canola and hot hot coffee instead of boiling water and used butter cream and three more things i did was i increased baking soda to 2 tsp and B powder to 1 tsp and put this delectibly chocolatey runny batter in three 8 in cake pans

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This recipe is almost identical to "Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake". The only difference is it calls for 1 cup of milk and 1/2 cup vegetable oil (which most always have on hand instead of the half and half and the canola oil. I have used this recipe several times and it always turns out perfect. The batter is VERY runny but it works. The cupcakes to have to bake longer 22-25 min.

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THE WORST EVER. WHY DOES FOOD NETWORK PRETEND TO POST A RECIPE THAT IS WRONG, W-R-O-N-G. Wake up food network excutives and understand your customers DO NOT like spending their money or time to cook watered down garbage like u posted here. Why in the world do u continue to do this. ok so the cupcakes had a good taste if u like SOUP. GET YOUR PROPORTIONS CORRECT & THEN POST THIS RECIPE. This is an outrage. I am NEVER cooking anything from u again. EVER...............