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Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Chocolate Cupcake is a small cake baked in a small, thin paper cup. It uses cocoa or unsweetened chocolate along with flour as main ingredients and is usually decorated with gorgeous frosting and sprinkles on top. A hit among the kids and to those who love sweets, this dessert can be done in more than a hundred ways.

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By: Vanjo Merano 35 Comments Updated: 9/2/18

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Chocolate Cupcake is a small cake baked in a small, thin paper cup. It uses cocoa or unsweetened chocolate along with flour as main ingredients and is usually decorated with gorgeous frosting and sprinkles on top.

A hit among the kids and to those who love sweets, this dessert can be done in more than a hundred ways.This particular recipe will enable you to make moist-flat cupcakes. If you wish to have frosting on top, I also provided some steps to make buttered chocolate frosting for you to enjoy. This is just the start of our cake mania. We’ll try to provide more cupcake and cake recipes in the future for the benefit of everyone. I hope that you’ll enjoy making this.

Chocolate Cup Cake Recipe

Try this delicious Chocolate Cupcake recipe and let me know what you think.

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Chocolate Cup Cake Recipe

Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Prep: 10 minutes minutes
Cook: 18 minutes minutes
Total: 28 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

  • >>Cupcake:
  • 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour sifted
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar sifted
  • 2 pieces raw eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • >>Frosting:
  • 2/3 cup unsalted butter
  • 1  1/3 cups confectioners sugar sifted
  • 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
  • 1  1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

  • Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl and whisk thoroughly until the ingredients are evenly distributed. Set aside.
  • Put the cocoa powder in the bowl where the hot water is and stir until the cocoa powder is diluted. Set aside.
  • Combine the butter and sugar in a separate mixing bowl then cream (electric mixer is needed) until texture become fluffy
  • Add the eggs while mixing continuously then put-in the vanilla essence.
  • Put in half of the flour-baking powder-salt mixture then mix well.
  • Add the other half of the flour-baking powder-salt mixture then continue mixing until all the ingredients are well distributed.
  • Pour the cocoa mixture and continue mixing until texture becomes smooth.
  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Fill the cupcake pan with cupcake paper cups.
  • Put the batter in each paper cup then bake for 18 minutes (insert toothpick in the cupcakes, if it comes out clean then the cupcakes are done).
  • Remove the cupcake from the oven and allow to cool down over a wire rack.
  • Melt the chocolate by placing it in a bowl over boiling water.
  • Once melted, set aside and allow to cool down to room temperature
  • Put the butter in a mixing bowl then cream (use electric mixer)
  • Add the sugar and continue mixing until the texture becomes fluffy.
  • Put-in the vanilla essence and chocolate then mix thoroughly until texture becomes smooth.
  • Place the frosting over the cupcakes.โ€จ(I use a pipe so that the frosting can easily be swirled. If you don't have any tools, you may use a spoon or spatula to spread the frosting.
  • Serve with a smile. Share and enjoy!

Nutrition Information

Serving: 6g
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  1. Dianne Ruedas says

    Posted on 9/10/10 at 5:37 am

    Hi! I made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! And it taste really really good! But ung frosting na ginawa ko is not thick like yours ๐Ÿ™ and natutunaw kagad siya. Papano un? ๐Ÿ™ Bawasan ko ba sa butter?Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 8/11/10 at 8:49 pm

    Please do Ailleen

    Reply
  3. bebang says

    Posted on 8/5/10 at 7:47 pm

    hello po! i always check on your website everytime i want to cook something. i can say that PP taught me how to cook! may i ask if ever i don’t have a heat-proof bowl to melt the chocochips, any other option? i’m thinking of melting it in the microwave. will it work? thanks and more power on your site!

    Reply
    • Panlasang Pinoy says

      Posted on 8/6/10 at 5:11 am

      Sure bebang, you can do that too. Please make sure that you don’t cook the chocolate.

      Reply
  4. eszion says

    Posted on 7/16/10 at 6:32 am

    PRE means BEFORE, so it means you have to heat your oven while your mixing your ingredients.. =)

    Reply
  5. Anna says

    Posted on 5/24/10 at 6:53 pm

    hi! ur recipes are great! i wonder if i can use hand mixer instead of electric for the chocolate cupcake.. hope you answer! thanks..

    Reply
  6. maann reyes says

    Posted on 1/30/10 at 3:34 am

    hi,chef..san po nakakabili nung cocoa powder and chocolate chips with the same brand?thanks a lot!

    Reply
    • Panlasang Pinoy says

      Posted on 1/31/10 at 6:15 pm

      Maan, I usually get this from local grocery stores here in the Chicagoland area. Where are you located? Maybe our friends here can help you out.

      Use any brand that you like. Mas maganda yung may quality na di masyadong mahal para makatipid tayo.

      Reply
  7. toshi says

    Posted on 1/22/10 at 11:00 pm

    Hi kuya,

    I am curious about the 1/2 cup butter you are using. It is 1/2 of 225 grams soft bar butter? thanks

    Reply
  8. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 1/17/10 at 8:50 am

    for this particular recipe ranipots, no need to use baking soda since may baking powder na tayo.

    Reply
  9. Ger says

    Posted on 11/29/09 at 6:42 am

    Thanks for your recipe. Can you tell me how many cupcakes will be done with this recipe? Thanks

    Reply
  10. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 11/9/09 at 8:45 pm

    Thanks for the flattering words prettyme. Glad you liked it.

    Reply
  11. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 11/9/09 at 8:31 pm

    YW mindanao babe ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  12. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 11/9/09 at 8:31 pm

    Leric, you can use vanilla instead.

    Reply
  13. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 11/9/09 at 8:26 pm

    Will do that next time Christina.

    Reply
  14. ate22 says

    Posted on 11/9/09 at 3:09 pm

    kuya,
    can we use regular butter?
    doest it make a difference if we use regular butter?
    won’t it make it creamier and more tastier if we use regular butter!!!??
    kuya can you also make homemade brownies, red velvet cake and sweet cornbread?
    i know that it’s too much requests but I really want to do this yummy pastries!!!

    Reply
    • Panlasang Pinoy says

      Posted on 11/9/09 at 8:41 pm

      What do you mean regular? Are you referring to the salted butter? If so, using it can affect the taste -- imagine the taste of a little salt combined with sugar. As for the texture, it should be the same. Well do a lot of cakes and pastries soon so please stay tuned ๐Ÿ™‚

      Thanks ate22 for commenting

      Reply
  15. ate22 says

    Posted on 11/8/09 at 12:22 pm

    yes!!!
    cake recipes…. pls continue doing this!!
    i have a request…. red velvet cupcake and sweet cornbread pls!!

    Reply
  16. bing says

    Posted on 11/8/09 at 11:03 am

    kuya klangan b tlaga n confectioners sugar sa frosting, puedi ba granulated sugar nlang, thanks po and more power

    Reply
  17. Abby C. says

    Posted on 11/7/09 at 12:47 pm

    Cake Recipes… Yey!!!
    Thanks po.
    Keep up the good work. Panlasang Pinoy makes my day. ^_^

    Reply
  18. Panlasang Pinoy says

    Posted on 11/7/09 at 10:34 am

    Sure Marife. We’ll take note of that and feature it soon. Have a good day!

    Reply
  19. Rocky Garcia says

    Posted on 11/7/09 at 9:14 am

    The ingredients are all basic. I think this one will be easy.

    Reply
  20. chinky91 says

    Posted on 11/7/09 at 4:35 am

    kuya vanj kung maglalagay ako ng baking soda gano karami para sa recipe na ito?tnx

    Reply
    • Panlasang Pinoy says

      Posted on 11/7/09 at 10:17 am

      Use the same amount as the baking powder chinks.

      Reply
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