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Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with the Ultimate Chocolate Frosting. This has been a literal labor of love! I have tested recipes from every major recipe source and have not.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ultimate chocolate cupcakes using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes:
- Take Cupcakes
- Take 1 stick butter, room temp
- Get 2 oz semisweet baking chocolate
- Get 2 large eggs, room temp
- Prepare 3/4 c granulated sugar
- Get 2 t vanilla extract
- Take 1/2 c sour cream, room temp
- Make ready 1/2 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 3/4 c AP flour
- Prepare 1/2 t baking soda
- Take 1 t baking powder
- Take 1/4 t salt
- Make ready Frosting
- Get 1 t vanilla extract
- Make ready 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
- Take 3 sticks butter, room temp
- Get 8 oz cream cheese, room temp
- Get 2 c confectioners sugar
- Take 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- Make ready 4-5 T brewed hot coffee
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Instructions to make Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes:
cupcake instructions- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees
- This recipe makes 12-14 cupcakes, so prepare one pan (or maybe two) with cupcake liners. Using a 2 oz scoop, this made 14 cupcakes.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together in the microwave. Microwave in 30-second increments, stirring in between each time. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, add the eggs, sugar, vanilla, and sour cream and whisk on medium speed until smooth. (about 1 minute)
- In a medium sized bowl, sift the cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together until thoroughly combined.
- Add the cooled butter/chocolate to the stand mixer and whisk until smooth, about 30 seconds. - Slowly add in the flour mixture, about 1/4 cup at a time with the stand mixer on low. - As soon as you are done adding the flour turn the mixer off. (You do not want to over-mix!) - The batter will be very thick.
- Fill the cupcake liners 2/3 of the way full with batter. Bake for 7.5 minutes, turn the pan(s) and bake another 7.5 minutes. The center of the cupcake should spring back up if gently pressed. Let cupcakes cool completely before frosting.
frosting instructions- Melt chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds.
- Place room temperature butter and cream cheese in a stand mixer. Cream together for 3 minutes on medium. The mixture will be light, fluffy, and a pale yellow. Scrape the sides of the bowl.
- In a separate bowl, add 4 tablespoons of hot coffee to cocoa and stir. If the mixture is still very thick, you can add 1 more tablespoon of hot coffee.
- Turn mixer on to the lowest setting and add in confectioners sugar, 1 cup at a time. Once incorporated, turn mixer on medium for 3 minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl.
- Turn the mixer off and add in vanilla extract, cooled chocolate, and cocoa/coffee mixture. Mix for another 3 minutes on medium.
- Frosting will darken as it sets. - Garnish with sprinkles (chocolate jimmies) if you want!
In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt, whisking until thoroughly. Chocolate Cupcakes are really just one of those classic and sacred baked goods that ring nostalgic notes for ALL of us. These chocolate cupcakes are the best - moist, rich, and decadent! The recipe is easy enough that anyone The chocolate in these cupcakes doesn't have to be one typically chosen for baking - any. These Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes that are filled with chocolate mousse, then topped with a chocolate buttercream and a white chocolate ganache.
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