Another treat that's hard to stop eating is the Classic Chocolate Cupcake. Who doesn't love a good chocolate cupcake? Especially when they're decorated with buttercream and sprinkles.
This simple recipe for the cake and icing is a perfect base recipe - you can add chocolate chips, peanut butter, marshmallow filling, caramelized banana's, almond flavoured buttercream - anything your craving at the time you're making these! You can alter, taste, and test - then perhaps tell me your new concoctions for me to taste & test.
Chocolate Cupcakes or Cake
Makes 12 Cupcakes or 1 8" cake
Ingredients
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cocoa powder (I use Fry's cocoa powder - not Dutch processed)
1/4 cup room temp butter, shortening, or half of each (I prefer all butter)
1/2 cup milk or 1/4 cup buttermilk & 1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
(for cupcakes only: 12 baking cups)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Grease the 8" pan, or line up a muffin pan with the baking cups
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder
- Add the butter, milk, and vanilla
- Mix with a wooden spoon around 300 hand strokes or for 2 minute on medium speed with an electric mixer, constantly scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl
- Add one egg at a time
- Beat for another 2 minutes
- Evenly disperse the batter into the muffin tins with an ice cream scooper or spoon, or scrape all the batter into the cake pan
- Bake for about 25min for the cupcakes, or 35min for the cake (insert a toothpick in the middle, about 5 min before, to see whether its done or not) - its better to check because ever oven is different, and you don't want an overbaked cake!
- When the inserted toothpick comes out dry, take the cupcakes/cake out of the oven, and let cool completely before frosting
Vanilla Butter Icing
Makes enough to ice 12 cupcakes or 1 8" cake
Ingredients
1/2 cup room temperature butter
2 and 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons milk (or more if necessary)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
optional: food colouring
Directions
- In a large bowl, beat butter with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until light and fluffy
- Add icing sugar 1/2 cup at a time, making sure that the mixture is smooth before you add the next 1/2 cup
- Beat in milk and vanilla
- Spread onto the cake or pipe onto cupcakes
- Icing will slightly harden, but it'll still taste good
This isn't necessarily the BEST icing I've ever had, its just the one I used for this recipe.
So there you go, you have another simple chocolate recipe. Nothing special, but it will cure those chocolate cravings, so go ahead, indulge :)
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