Chocolate cupcakes. These super moist chocolate cupcakes pack TONS of chocolate flavor in each cupcake wrapper! Made from simple everyday ingredients, this easy cupcake recipe will be your new favorite. These are the chocolate cupcakes you've been dreaming of!
Perfect Chocolate Cupcakes topped with a chocolate buttercream frosting! This basic chocolate cupcake recipe uses vinegar and baking soda to create an acid-base reaction, causing bubbles to form and thus the cupcakes to rise as they bake. These classic chocolate cupcakes are ready in less than an hour, and the perfect dessert for any occasion. You can cook Chocolate cupcakes using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate cupcakes
- You need of Ingredients.
- Prepare 1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
- It's 3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Prepare 2 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 cup of plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened.
- You need 1 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- It's 3 of eggs.
- You need 3/4 cup of milk.
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Chocolate cupcakes step by step
- heat oven to 350°F. Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners. In a bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt..
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar for 2 minutes, until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. On low, add flour mixture, alternating with milk. Divide batter among liners, a scant 1/3 cup in each..
- Bake at 350°F for about 19 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centres comes out clean. Remove cupcakes to a rack, cool completely..
- Frost with your favorite chocolate frosting or frosting of your choice and decorate as you please..
This has been a literal labor of love! I have tested recipes from every major recipe source and have not been able to find the one I considered to be perfect. Unsweetened chocolate - adding in melted chocolate will give the cupcakes even more decadent chocolate flavor. The flavor reminds me of brownies. Buttermilk - this is the key ingredient for moist.