I first saw this beautiful chocolate cupcakes at Quinn’s Baking Diary (Thank you Quinn). Baked this easy recipe two days ago and it was all gone on the next day! I called this “Must Try Chocolate Cupcakes” because the cupcakes texture were so perfect, really light and not too sweet.
Must Try Chocolate Cupcakes
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Author: Ann Low
Ingredients
- Ingredients: Makes 18 cupcakes
- 100g Butter, softened
- 200g Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- ¾ tsp Vanilla extract
- ½ cup milk (125ml)
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- ½ cup Boiling water (with 1 tsp Nescafe Classic Instant Coffee powder)
- 190g Flour
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 3 tsp Baking powder
- 40g Cocoa powder
Instructions
- Sift flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder in bowl. Dissolve baking soda in milk.
- Cream butter and sugar until light. Add vanilla and eggs, continue beating.
- Add in the rest of the ingredients (milk, coffee liquid and flour ingredients), beat till smooth.
- Spoon batter into greased paper cases to ¾ full.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 160C for about 20 mins or until skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Leave to cool on rack before icing.
- Ice with whatever type of icing you prefer or dust lightly with icing sugar.
- Best to chill the cupcakes before consuming.
Recipe from The Waitakere Reneck's Kitchen
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