Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

These Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes start with the best chocolate cupcakes flavored with a hint of mint and topped with fluffy mint buttercream frosting loaded with tiny pieces of dark chocolate. If mint chocolate chip ice cream is your thing, this cupcake version delivers the same cool mint and chocolate combination in cake form.

Mint and chocolate is one of those flavor combinations that people tend to feel strongly about. You either love it, or you really don’t.

I’ve always been firmly in the love it camp.

So when I was planning this year’s Cupcake of the Month for March, mint chocolate chip felt like the obvious choice. It’s fresh, a little nostalgic, and just the right flavor combination to bridge winter chocolate desserts and the lighter flavors of spring.

These cupcakes start with a soft chocolate base with just a hint of mint in the batter. On top is a fluffy mint buttercream that is packed with finely chopped dark chocolate, giving it that classic mint chocolate chip look with little bursts of chocolate in every bite.

The result tastes a lot like mint chocolate chip ice cream… just in cupcake form.