Baker Katie Banks shares her recipe for Southern Chocolate Cupcakes in the video below. What makes them special? The addition of beaten egg yolks gives the cupcakes a very light, moist texture. You can even add your favorite frosting when you’re done!
Southern Chocolate Cupcakes
6 oz semisweet chocolate pieces
1 cup butter
8 egg yolks
4 egg whites
1 1/3 cup sugar
1 cup milk
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
~ Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Melt chocolate and butter in the microwave and mix until combined; set to the side to cool.
~ Separate egg yolks …read more

While doing some link surfing recently I came across quite a few recipes for Black Bottom Cupcakes. Being a sucker for anything involving chocolate and cream cheese, I had to give these a try!

The addition of the mini chocolate chips in the cream cheese mix adds a perfect texture to the “surprise” filling. The cream cheese was actually not as prominent as I would have liked it to be, and actually the next time I make these I’m going to play around with it a bit and add some sour cream to the mix and see how that works out.
The …read more

Lots of yummy chocolate creations this week! Check out:
~ Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cupcakes at Miss Cupcake Face
~ Mocha Chocolate Cookies at Baked Alaska
~ Bittersweet Chocolate and Cardamom Cupcakes at Tartlette
~ Chocolate Thumbprints at The Food Librarian
~ Double Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes with Spice Cream Cheese Frosting at Pinch My Salt
~ Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Blondies at Cinemon Girl
~ Fall Chocolate Cookies at Priscilla’s Baking Adventures
~ S’more-dillas at Chaos in the Kitchen
~ Mini Brioches Filled With Chocolate Truffle at Baking for the Cure
~ Quintuple Chocolate Brownies at Dreamy Desserts
~ M&M Studded Fudgy Oreo-Chunk Brownies at The Recipe Girl

This guest post was written by Linette at Mother Earth’s Garden and The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review:
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I’m a huge gardening fan, and I also love to plan parties. So when I found out I had the opportunity to write something for Chocolate Bytes I decided I would combine those two favorites with my favorite food, chocolate. Yum!
I enjoy decorating cakes and cupcakes. One of my favorite cupcake decorating tricks is to use molded chocolates as a topper. Molding chocolate can be a very simple process, even if you’re using several colors.

What you will need:
~ Melting chocolate, regular and …read more