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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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.
Try this delicious Chocolate Cupcake recipe and let me know what you think.
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Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
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.โจ(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!
Dianne Ruedas says
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 ๐ and natutunaw kagad siya. Papano un? ๐ Bawasan ko ba sa butter?Thanks!
Panlasang Pinoy says
Please do Ailleen
bebang says
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!
Panlasang Pinoy says
Sure bebang, you can do that too. Please make sure that you don’t cook the chocolate.
eszion says
PRE means BEFORE, so it means you have to heat your oven while your mixing your ingredients.. =)
Anna says
hi! ur recipes are great! i wonder if i can use hand mixer instead of electric for the chocolate cupcake.. hope you answer! thanks..
maann reyes says
hi,chef..san po nakakabili nung cocoa powder and chocolate chips with the same brand?thanks a lot!
Panlasang Pinoy says
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.
toshi says
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
Panlasang Pinoy says
for this particular recipe ranipots, no need to use baking soda since may baking powder na tayo.
Ger says
Thanks for your recipe. Can you tell me how many cupcakes will be done with this recipe? Thanks
Panlasang Pinoy says
Thanks for the flattering words prettyme. Glad you liked it.
Panlasang Pinoy says
YW mindanao babe ๐
Panlasang Pinoy says
Leric, you can use vanilla instead.
Panlasang Pinoy says
Will do that next time Christina.
ate22 says
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!!!
Panlasang Pinoy says
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 ๐
Thanks ate22 for commenting
ate22 says
yes!!!
cake recipes…. pls continue doing this!!
i have a request…. red velvet cupcake and sweet cornbread pls!!
bing says
kuya klangan b tlaga n confectioners sugar sa frosting, puedi ba granulated sugar nlang, thanks po and more power
Abby C. says
Cake Recipes… Yey!!!
Thanks po.
Keep up the good work. Panlasang Pinoy makes my day. ^_^
Panlasang Pinoy says
Sure Marife. We’ll take note of that and feature it soon. Have a good day!
Rocky Garcia says
The ingredients are all basic. I think this one will be easy.
chinky91 says
kuya vanj kung maglalagay ako ng baking soda gano karami para sa recipe na ito?tnx
Panlasang Pinoy says
Use the same amount as the baking powder chinks.