Cupcake or Cocoa?

...that is the question.

One of my most popular Christmas cupcake flavors is Peppermint Hot Chocolate. It is a chocolate cupcake, topped with a homemade whip cream and crushed up candy canes.

To recreate this:

• use your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe (or a box mix if you have to)
• whip up heavy whipping cream and granulated sugar using the whisk attachment on your mixer (I guess-timate the amount of the whipping cream and I usually use four decent sized pinches of sugar)
• crush up your candy canes, sprinkle them, and voila!

Take it up a notch:

• bake a giant marshmallow inside for that extra hot cocoa feel
• or bake a peppermint Hershey Kiss in the middle. Yum!

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