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My husband’s birthday was last week, so I wanted to make him something special. He really likes tiramisu, so I made him some tiramisu cupcakes to celebrate his birthday! Tiramisu is a traditional Italian dessert flavored with coffee, cocoa and mascarpone cheese. Tiramisu is one of my husband’s favorite desserts!
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Easy Tiramisu Cupcakes
I’m not a big baker, and I had a busy day scheduled the day of my husband’s birthday, so I made my tiramisu cupcakes with a box of vanilla cake mix. I got this extra delicious, but quick and easy recipe, from Life is Sweets. To get started, all I did was prepare the mix according to the box’s instructions, and bake the cupcakes in a cupcake pan
While the cupcakes were baking, I used my kitchen’s Keurig Coffee Maker
Once the cupcakes were done baking, I set them up on a nonstick cooling rack
to poke holes in the top of each cupcake. I then spooned about a tablespoon of coffee over each cupcake, and let the coffee sink into the cupcake holes that I had created. (The tablespoon of coffee gave each cupcake a light coffee taste. If you want a heavier flavor, you could add more coffee.)
Mascarpone Cheese Icing
I topped the cupcakes with a delicious icing made with heavy whipping cream mascarpone cheese and confectioners sugar.
Ingredients:
until it formed whipped cream. I then poured my whipped cream into a second bowl so I could use the KitchenAid Stand Mixer to beat together the mascarpone cheese and confectioners sugar. Once the cheese and sugar were well combined, I added the whipped cream to the cheese and sugar combination and beat them together until they were well combined.
to shave Hersheys chocolate over the cupcakes.)
The cupcakes were tasty — even my kids liked them! We all enjoyed two cupcakes during my husband’s birthday celebration!
Be sure to check out my friend’s coffee creations this month!
Coffee pastry cream from An Italian in My Kitchen
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I think I would have struggled with this month’s theme, since I don’t have a coffee machine! :O These cupcakes look so good, especially the icing! Yum!
Carrie
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Thanks, Carrie! You really need to get a coffee machine! 🙂
Oh man, what a great idea for a cupcake flavor!! I love tiramisu!
Nikki from Tikkido recently posted…Addictively Delicious Cappuccino Blondies Bar Cookie Recipe
Thanks, Nikki! I can’t wait to try your cappuccino blondies!
As far as I am concerned Tiramisu is one of the best desserts. Your cupcakes look amazing. Can’t wait to try the recipes.
Rosemary @anitalianinmykitchen.com recently posted…Coffee Pastry Cream – Tasty Creations
Thanks, Rosemary! Thank you for stopping by! My family really enjoyed these cupcakes!
Tiramisu is one of my favorite deserts and I can’t wait to make these! They look delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Jill
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Thanks for stopping by, Jill! Hope you enjoy the cupcakes!
I made these cupcakes for my boyfriends mothers birthday. I got rave reviews on them and I thought they were awesome! Everyone asks me when I am going to make them again and if I can double the recipe – they want more than just one.
Wow, that is great, Xenya! I am so glad that everyone liked the cupcakes! Thanks so much for sharing!