Chocolate Cupcakes
 
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A perfect cupcake is all about making sure your base (the cupcake) is light and fluffy (not crumbly and dry)! To top off our cupcakes we used a simple chocolate buttercream icing.
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Recipe type: Baked Goods
Cuisine: American
Serves: 18
Ingredients
Cupcakes
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 ¾ cup plain flour, sifted
  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa, sifted
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup boiling water
Chocolate Icing
  • ½ cup butter, at room temperature
  • 250g cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup cocoa powder, sifted
  • 2 cups icing sugar, sifted
  • extra milk
Instructions
Cupcakes
  1. Line muffin tin with paper liners. Preheat oven to 180C.
  2. In a large mixing bowl sift in all dry ingredients.
  3. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Beat on a medium speed for one minute.
  4. Stir in boiling water (the batter will be thin but don’t worry)
  5. Fill liners ⅔ full.
  6. Bake cupcake for 18 to 20 minutes
  7. Complete with frosting.
Icing
  1. Add butter, cream cheese and vanilla to a mixing bowl. Mix until smooth.
  2. Gradually add sifted cocoa powder and icing sugar.
  3. Mix until smooth. Add extra milk if you find the icing a too dry.
Recipe by Grab Your Spork | grabyourspork.com at https://grabyourspork.com/recipes/baked-goods/chocolate-cupcakes/