Love Is In the Air

Looking for a chocolatey dessert for Valentine's Day? Look no further! This week we are having a chocolate cupcake with chocolate chip and cream cheese filling, and chocolate buttercream. Because who doesn't want a chocolate overload on the most chocolate centered holiday of the year?

Cupcakes:
1 box chocolate cake mix

Chocolate chip cream cheese filled cupcakes!

Filling:
16 oz softened cream cheese (or Neufchatel cheese if you want to save the calories)
2 C powdered sugar
1 C mini chocolate chips

Frosting:
1/2 C butter
1/2 C shortening
6 C powdered sugar
16 oz melted chocolate chips
1 T chocolate extract

Once the cupcakes are cooled, use the handle end of a wooden spoon to make an indentation into each cupcake. (You don't want to go all the way to the cupcake liner, but have a big enough hole for a good amount of filling). Pipe the filling into the cupcakes using a large piping tip (so the chocolate chips don't get stuck), or gently spoon it in. Once the cupcakes are filled, frost the cupcakes. If you use a large star tip you can make a swirl pattern by starting at the outside and working up and in, or, you can make a rose by starting on the inside and working out to the edges (but not up).

There you go! A super easy, quick and delicious Valentine's dessert. Because we all know you'd rather not spend the whole night in the kitchen ;)