Simple Chocolate Cupcakes

anme's Note:

I great basic recipe for cupcakes!

• Total Time: 42 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 17 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 20-30

Yield: 20.0 cupcakes

• 1 1/3 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 dash salt
• 3 tablespoons softened butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Put cupcake liner in muffin tin OR grease very well muffin tin.
3. sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt.
4. The in another bowl beat together the butter and sugar and then add the eggs beating very well then mix in the vanilla.
5. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk to the sugar and be sure to beat well each time!.
6. Spoon batter into the muffin cups 2/3 full.
7. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
8. It really depends on how full you fill the muffin tin to decide on the yield. If you want really domed cupcakes fill them almost full.

Reviews

[bakeacake4stars]

I had really bad problems. i think there was too muck sugar in the recipe. When we took them out of the oven, i noticed that it tasted too much like flour and sugar, and did not get enough of the chocolate flavor. The top also came out hard, as well as the cake. I added melted chocolate to the batter, but it still came out nasty. i would ask to change the recipe.

[cairee]

This was my first attempt at from-scratch cupcakes. I am much more of a chef than baker, but anyway... The batter was VERY cocoa-ey, so I added an extra half teaspoon of vanilla extract (looking back I could have even added an extra whole teaspoon). Other than this I followed the recipe to the letter, using organic flour, sugar and eggs. I opted to use unsalted butter as well. The recipe was easy to execute with a Kitchen Aid mixer, using the white paddle attachment. As someone else noted, I did have to bake them for 20 minutes. I ended up with 12 very full cupcakes; I filled them to the brim and they didn't collapse. They taste very cocoa-ey and are very dense. Three stars because they tasted more like muffins than cupcakes, not sweet enough.

[ecrackers]

I have never had problems with cupcakes, but the ones that I made with this recipe collapsed. It was perfect on the inside, and the taste was very good, which is the only reason im not giving this 1 star. I double checked everything on the recipe and after I made them I went back again and checked everything, and I followed it to the letter.