The BEST Chocolate Cupcakes EVER - Recipe

The BEST Chocolate Cupcakes EVER!!!

Don't they look amazingly perfectly chocolatey??

Like I promised here is my recipe that I have FINALLY perfected to be my GO-TO chocolate cupcake recipe. I will never use another one again for just chocolate. If I am looking for a chocolate coconut, chocolate chipotle, chocolate cinnamon well that is a different story but these are hands down the best I have ever made according to, well, me and my #1 taste tester, my hubby. I adapted these from the Chocolate Pomegranate Cupcakes that I made that I had originally adapted from How To Eat A Cupcakes, POM Wonderful chocolate cupcakes.

Took me a while to find my "one and only" chocolate cupcake recipe but this is totally IT!! Now to find that Vanilla one....

So here is the recipe!! If you have any questions or any snafu's while making these or don't have the same results and chocolate cupcake epiphany that I did feel free to email me and I can try to help you out so you too can be in chocolate cupcake heaven!!

acupfullofcake@gmail.com

Shanna

Best Chocolate Cupcakes Ever 

By a Cup Full Of Cake

Makes 28 cupcakes

Dry Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ( Dutch process like Droste or another GOOD brand)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients:

1 cup whole milk

4 ounces bittersweet chocolate melted and cooled (cooled for about 15 min make sure its still melted though don’t want it to harden back up)
½ cup plus 1 tbsp water, heated to boiling ( have a kettle of water on the stove boiling ready to go)
3/4 cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs room temp
2 tablespoons vinegar (not wine vinegar)
1 tablespoon vanilla

 Instructions

This can be done with a stand mixer or by hand with a hand mixer or whisk but it is more of a 2 bowl method than one if going the hand mixing route

1. Preheat oven to 350F with rack in the center.
2. Place paper baking cups in regular sized muffin tins, spray edges around 

cups lightly with cooking spray. If you have a small 6 cup muffin tin and you only

get 27 or 28 cupcakes fill the rest of the wells halfway with water and no baking

cup
3. Whisk together the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt)

in a large bowl.
4. In a large bowl or bowl of stand mixer whisk eggs till slightly thickened and a pale

color

5. Add in the milk, vanilla, oil and vinegar and whisk/beat well

6. Add in the melted and cooled chocolate and whisk/beat until combined well
7. Either add the flour mixture into the wet ingredients OR the wet into the flour and mix

just to combine. Add in the boiling water and mix again just to combine. Scrape

down the sides of the bowl with a spatula to make sure all the dry ingredients are

incorporated
8. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups
9. Bake 15-18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean and free

 of crumbs or the cupcake tops bounce back when lightly pressed. Mine baked for

18 minutes.

10. Let cool for 5 min in pans and then remove carefully to a wire cooling rack. Cool     completely before frosting

My notes:

Yes there is ONLY baking soda in these but it works. Do not try to add baking powder. I know you will look at this and think, “ don’t baked goods need baking powder or both powder and soda?” well yes, sometimes. It’s the vinegar that reacts with the soda, which helps with the proper leavening of the cake. These totally ROCK. They’re moist, dense, perfect texture and taste. Even 4 days after having been in my fridge, which normally dries them out, but they were still perfect. I have made them a few times now once I got 26 or 27 cupcakes and another time 28. Just depends on how full you fill the cups. I use a #16 ice cream/batter scoop to fill mine. One full scoop works and if I have  batter leftover and some look to be less filled with batter than I try to even out with a spoon and add in more batter that way. I also like SLAM the cupcake pans down on my counter a few times ( just lift evenly and let drop) to help get some of the air bubbles out. I am not sure where I read this technique but it works and well its kind of fun to make the noise. Unless you bake while your baby/kids/husband/significant other is sleeping. They might not like it.

Good luck and trust me you will LOVE this recipe. I do!!