Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes

If you follow our Twitter or Instagram accounts you probably already know that we've recently baked up two new holiday cupcakes.  And although it's not quite Thanksgiving yet, we know people are itching for Christmas sweets and ideas for gifts.  Our new cupcake fits that criteria and is adorable to boot.  Meet the first of our two new Christmas cupcakes, the Chocolate Peppermint Cupcake.

The cake in this new cupcake is our favorite chocolate cake.  It's moist and fluffy, and probably our favorite cake recipe we have created since baking together the last three years.  We top the cake with a layer of silky peppermint chocolate ganache.  Then on top of the ganache we give these girls a swirl of fluffy peppermint chocolate frosting, and crown them with crushed candy canes.  

We make these cupcakes, like most of our other varieties, in our regular size (background) and mini size (top foreground and bottom).  The minis are addictive, to say the least.  Chocolate peppermint indulgence in bite-sized form?  That's something to give you, your family, and your friends some yuletide cheer.

Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes and Minis

Thanks, as always, to TZRollins Photography for the beautiful photos.