Best Ever Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe with Step by Step pictures. Delicious moist chocolate cupcakes made with flour, cocoa and sugar and it gets a creamy buttercream frosting. This cupcakes are moist, soft and best in the whole wide world.
Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
As i promised i am delivering you the basic chocolate cupcakes using eggs recipe. This is one of the best, moist and soft chocolate cupcakes you ever taste. It has a real chocolate flavour and so moist. I made this for my sister to take it to her college mates. And i heard that they loved it.
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About this Recipe
A cupcake is a small cake that serves one person and is baked in a small thin paper or aluminium cup. Frosting and other cake decorations, such as fruit and candy, may be used, as with larger cakes.
What is the history behind cupcakes?
While cake has been around in some form or another since ancient times, cupcakes first appeared in America. The first reference to a cake to be baked in small cups; rather than as a layer cake, is thought to have appeared in Amelia Simmons; American Cookery in 1796.
Who invented chocolate cupcakes?
The cupcake was invented by Amelia Simmons. And, as if that wasn't enough for the history books, when she first published her cookbook in 1796, she established herself as the author of the first American cookbook.
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I wanted to make this cupcakes special so i made vanilla and chocolate buttercream and piped it as swirled pattern and it really looked pretty. Perfect for any special event.
Ingredients for Chocolate Cupcakes
All Purpose Flour / Maida :
Maida requires more oil or butter when baking or cooking because it is lighter and rises faster, which is why bakers prefer maida to atta. All-purpose flour can be used for a variety of tasks, including baking, cooking, coating meats and vegetables, and thickening sauces and gravies. To manufacture all-purpose flour, a blend of
hard wheat (which has more gluten) and soft wheat is crushed together.
Baking Powder
Baking powder is used to increase the volume of baked goods and lighten their texture. It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough via an acid–base reaction, which causes bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leaven the mixture.
Cocoa Powder :
Cocoa powder is primarily used as a flavouring agent in baked goods such as cookies, ice cream, dairy drinks, and cakes. Aside from flavouring, it is also used in the production of coatings for confectioners or frozen desserts.
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - ¾ cup / 90 grams
- Cocoa Powder - ½ cup / 50 grams
- Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - ½ tsp
- Baking Powder - ¾ tsp
- Eggs - 2
- Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
- Oil - ⅓ cup / 80 ml
- Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
- Buttermilk - ½ cup (see below
- Vanilla Buttercream - ¼ batch (recipe here)
- Chocolate Buttercream - ½ batch (recipe here)
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Best Ever Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - ¾ cup / 90 grams
- Cocoa Powder - ½ cup / 50 grams
- Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - ½ tsp
- Baking Powder - ¾ tsp
- Eggs - 2
- Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
- Oil - ⅓ cup / 80 ml
- Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
- Buttermilk - ½ cup see below
- Vanilla Buttercream
- Chocolate Buttercream
*My 1 cup measures 240 ml
*If you don't have buttermilk, take ½ cup of milk and add 1.5 tsp of vinegar or lemon juice to it and mix well. Let this sit for 5 to 10 mins. Now use this.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line 12 cup muffin tray with cupcake cases and set aside.
- Take flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder in a sifter and sieve well.
- Take oil, sugar, vanilla in a bowl and mix well. Add in eggs and give a good mix.
- Add in buttermilk and whisk well.
- Now add in the sifted flour mix and fold gently..
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter and fill the cupcake cases.
- Bake for 18 to 20 mins until a toothpick inserted comes clean.
- Take the tray from oven and let it cool completely.
- Meanwhile make a batch of vanilla and chocolate buttercream.
- When the cupcakes are cooled, pipe the cream over the cupcakes and top with sprinkles.
- Serve.
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Chocolate Cupcakes Step by Step Pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| I got these beautiful brown cupcake wrappers |
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| line the muffin tray with the cases |
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| Now take flour in a sieve |
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| add cocoa powder |
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| add in baking soda |
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| baking powder |
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| sieve it |
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| take oil in a bowl |
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| add in sugar |
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| add in vanilla |
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| whisk it little |
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| add in eggs and whisk it up |
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| now add in buttermilk, if you don't have buttermilk, take milk in a bowl and add 1.5 tsp of lemon juice or vinegar in it..Let it sit for 10 min, now buttermilk is done |
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| whisk it up |
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| add the dry ingredients in |
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| mix gently |
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| scrape the bowl using a spatula |
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| now use an ice cream scoop to take the batter |
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| and fill the cupcake cases |
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| now bake them..Let them cool completely |
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| while the cupcakes are cooling, i made a batch of vanilla and chocolate buttercream |
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| take a disposable piping bag and place a nozzle in |
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| place the bag onto a cup |
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| and dollop the cream in |
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| this will create a lovely swirl pattern |
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| take the cooled cupcakes in a plate |
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| pipe the icing |
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| go on and pipe around the cupcake |
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| just like this |
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| like this.. |
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| now the cupcakes are piped.. |
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| Top with some sprinkles and serve |
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| the cool thing is, each cupcake will have a different pattern |
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| the cupcakes were so moist.. |
Anonymous
Looks yummy...
Anonymous
Looks yummy....
Sudha
Aarthi,your recipes are excellent.These cupcakes look so tempting n beautiful !! Can you please tell from where you got this shape of star nozzle because I couldn't find it.They are usually more open so the rossetts are not so sharp.
Thanks for lovely recipes.
Sudha Agarwal
Aarthi
@Sudhai got those from a shop near my house where they sell baking supplies.. ..look online u will find it..
James Coutman
How to make vanilla cupcakes chocolate cupcakes
Anonymous
can we use butter instead of oil
Anonymous
Can I use butter instead of oil
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can usebutter. melt it and use
sugandha tewari
Would love to know an eggless version of this receipe
Anonymous
Hi..I want to make them a day before for my son's birthday.most of the recipes get wet I don't want to frost
Aarthi
@Anonymousthey stay good
Karima Fathi
i am gonna give it a try..wait for my feedback..thanks
Karima Fathi
yummy chocolaty airy, good recipe..
Anonymous
Thanks aarthi for sharing all your recepie....
Husna Fathima
Sis the cupcake liners u have used is it medium or large cupcake liner and if we don't have icecream scoop then how many spoons of batter should we add into each cupcake liner sis pls help me.
Anonymous
The only recipes that i believe to try is from Aarthi, i tried it without frost.. Very sweet.. And coconut barfi for the second time... Thanks for sharing your recipes Aarthi..
muskan power
These look delicious! Now i'm in the mood for some chocolatey goodness!
Smita
The cupcakes turned out to be super yummy and so light. I tried the chocolate buttercream frosting, but when I tried to pipe it into the cupcakes, it fell flat without the design. As though I had spread it with a spoon. Kindly advise where I could have gone wrong. The frosting was tasty .