Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcake

I love chocolate covered strawberries…they are sweet, and decadent. I have taken my love for this great sweet treat and decided to put it in a cupcake for Valentine’s Day. This easy to make cupcake is what I call a semi-homemade sweet ending.  I use a boxed vanilla cake mix, a jar of chocolate frosting that I jazz up a bit using nutella to add extra chocolate goodness with a hint of hazelnut, frozen strawberries for a fruity filling and an added chocolate covered strawberry on top! 

 18 cupcake liners

1 box of vanilla cake mix, prepared according to the package

1 jar of chocolate frosting

1/4 cup nutella

1 cup of  crushed strawberries,fresh or frozen(thaw and drain if using frozen)

1/4 cup sugar

18 sliced or whole strawberries for the top

1 bag of Wilton Chocolate Candy Melts

Preheat Oven to 350F

Line muffin tin with cupcake liners

Add 2 tablespoons of prepared cake mix to each cupcake liner and cook according to the package

Allow cupcakes to cool 

To Make The Filling:

Mix together strawberries and sugar

Using the tip of a spoon poke a hole in the cupcake, move the tip of the spoon gently around in the cupcake a couple of times to create space for the filling.  

Take a teaspoon of filling and stuff it down into the cupcake. 

To Make The Frosting:

Mix nutella into the jar of chocolate frosting

Top the cupcake off with the chocolate frosting

Take a ziploc bag and add some melted chocolate, push the melted chocolate to one corner, using a chip clip clip the bag, cut a little hole in the corner and on the parchment or tinfoil draw a heart, put in the fridge to harden, once harden remove gently using a spatula

Top cupcake with chocolate covered strawberry and chocolate heart

The Frosting

Chocolate Hearts & Chocolate Covered Strawberries