Rocky Road Cupcakes
So these Rocky Road Cupcakes have been a long time coming, I originally posted a teaser on Instagram FIVE MONTHS AGO, I know, I know… I’m a bad food blogger. But after shooting the photos, they just weren’t up to par. The cupcakes themselves were a huge hit at the office, it was actually a coworker who ordered a batch for her son’s birthday that gave me the chance to remake and reshoot them!
I also didn’t get around to posting these until now because I made them around the time I switched over to WordPress from Blogger (which was a nightmare), I even gave them a mention in my chapter about the process in How to Grow Your Blog, an ebook I co-wrote with some other amazing bloggers!
There’s just something about that Rocky Road combo: chocolate, nuts, and marshmallows. The way the three different textures and flavors come together is absolutely perfect! These cupcakes have a chocolate cake base loaded with walnuts and filled with marshmallow fluff in the center. Top with with a creamy whipped chocolate frosting, more walnuts, sprinkles, and mini marshmallows and you’ve got something of pure magic! These cupcakes are just so fun and pretty easy to make considering how many components there are to them.
I’ve really been loving making filled cupcakes since my mom bought me a cupcakes corer for Christmas last year! My White Chocolate Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes were the first filled cupcakes I made for New Year’s last year and they’re the most popular recipe on my blog! I also made up a batch of my Chocolate & Peanut Butter Surprise Cupcakes for my coworker’s party!
But I know it’s been five months and you guys don’t want to wait any longer, so scroll down for the recipe and get baking!
Rocky Road Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 1 Box Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
- 3.9 oz. Package Jell-O Instant Chocolate Fudge Pudding Mix
- 4 Eggs
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 3/4 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/4 tsp Sea Salt
- 1 cup Chopped Walnuts
Frosting:
- 2 cups Heavy Cream
- 1/2 cup Confectioners' Sugar
- 1/3 cup Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
Filling:
- 1 1/2 cups Marshmallow Fluff
Topping:
- Chopping Walnuts
- Mini Marshmallows
- Sprinkles
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Line cupcake pan.
- Combine cupcake ingredients in mixing bowl and beat until well combined, making sure to scrape down the sides as needed.
- Add about 2 tbsp of batter to liners so they're about 3/4 full.
- Reduce oven to 350 F.
- Bake cupcakes for about 18-20 minutes until toothpick comes clean.
- Let set in pan for a couple of minutes before transferring to oven rack to finish cooling.
- Core cupcakes and pipe in fluff until each is full.
Frosting:
- Combine heavy cream, confectioners' sugar, and pudding mix in mixing bowl and beat until stiff peaks form.
- Pipe frosting onto cupcakes and sprinkle with sprinkles, chopped walnuts, and mini marshmallows.
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These look absolutely perfect! I bet they taste fantastic!
Oh they did!
The pictures are so delicious! And the recipe is just yummylicious!
Thanks so much, it was nice of you to stop by!
Wow, looks amazing! Drooling now!
These are absolutely gorgeous!! I want one now…and I haven’t even had breakfast yet!
Beautiful photos and your recipe sounds delicious. Gorgeous work and I can’t wait to try these cupcakes.
wow! that looks SOOO good! Pinned to make soon, I’m sure my boys would be over the moon if I baked these ;o)
If one were to be sitting in front of me right now, man, screw my healthy eating! They look so good!!
Alright, Lady! It’s almost 11 pm and you made my SO hungry with your amazing cupcake!!! Wow! pinned;)
My son would flip if I made these for him, he’s a die-hard Rocky Road fan. Thanks for sharing!
Rebecca!! These look absolutely amazing. I bet they are so addicting.
Girl, you’ve done it again! I’m over here drooling over these things!
I know, they’re pretty tempting aren’t they?
Your pictures and these cupcakes are drool-worthy!! I cannot pretend to bake, because I never measure anything, but I might have to for these bad-boys! Pinned.
Haha… I’m terrible at cooking, good thing my husband loves to! These are really easy and have a cake mix base!
These are some of the prettiest cupcakes!!! I love them! Great job!
Thanks so much girl! They were pretty delicious too!
OMGosh these cupcakes look sinful! That’s how I like em, LOL. YUM
The sinful ones are the best! 😉
I knew I would be drooling when I saw you invented another cupcake!! My favorite ice cream is rocky road so I do believe this just might become my favorite little cupcake!!!
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Haha… I know, I’m turning into a bit of a cupcake addict! I have another recipe on the way too from this weekend!
Chocolate lovers unite! Looks delicious!
Thank you!
These are so cute and look delicious.
Oh they were, thanks for stopping by!
Gorgeous pix, and what a fun recipe! Love this!
Thank you, Patricia! These are super fun to make and even more fun to eat!
I totally understand leaving a recipe sit in your “post later” pile because of photos. I have about 3 sitting as we speak! 🙂 These are beautiful though, Rebecca. You can be proud!! Pinned!
Thanks, Julie! I have a few others too, but the recipes themselves need a bit of tweaking too! One day… haha!
Words cannot describe how much I am craving one of these cupcakes right now, they look so incredibly delicious. Pinned!
Thanks for stopping in to check them out! They are really good and I hope you get a chance to make them soon!