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October 19, 2012 By Emily 8 Comments

Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

Filed Under: cake, cupcakes Tagged With: butter cream, buttercream, chocolate, chocolate chips, wedding

These Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream are delicious, rich chocolate cupcakes topped with a chocolate buttercream and miniature chocolate chips; in other words a chocolate lovers dream come true.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream
Last Friday I helped a friend bake for a small wedding she was hosting at her home the next day. That meant baking 4 dozen cupcakes, making buttercream and frosting said cupcakes like a mad woman with my sweet little one running around and occasionally begging for a bite. The wedding was small, beautiful and all in all a huge success – the cupcakes turned out awesome too!
Not surprisingly, I thought the chocolate cupcakes out-shined the vanilla (even though they were good) there is just something so delicious about a moist, rich chocolate cake that is hard to resist, even for a non-cake lover like myself. I found this recipe in a book I have had for several years and never used before, that seems to be a theme around here with me. The book is called, Birthday Cakes – Recipes and Memories from Celebrated Bakers by Kathryn Kleinman; it has a gorgeous cover and a great collection of some amazing sounding recipes.
The recipe I choose is, Birthday Cupcakes by Stephanie Greenleigh, I made just a few small alterations and let me tell you these cupcakes are amazing! I hope you will give them a try, I highly recommend the chocolate buttercream – I just know you’re going to fall in love; enjoy and happy baking!
Chocolate Cupcakes w/ Chocolate Buttercream
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

Prep 10 mins

Cook 30 mins

Total 40 mins

Author Emily

Yield 24 cupcakes

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

  • 3 c flour
  • 1/3 c corn starch
  • 2 c sugar
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1 c cocoa powder, I used Nestle
  • 2 c warm water
  • 3 eggs, extra large
  • 1 c vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla

For the chocolate buttercream:

  • 2 sticks butter, room temperature
  • 3 1/2 c powdered sugar, you can always add more if you add too much milk
  • 1/2 c cocoa powder
  • 3-4 Tbs milk
  • 1 Tbs vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

To make the cupcakes:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350º and line 2, 12 muffin cup pans with paper liners.
  2. In the bowl of your stand mixer add the flour, corn starch, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt, stir to combine.
  3. In a large bowl add the cocoa powder to the warm water and carefully stir until smooth.
  4. Beat in the eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla until combined.
  5. Add the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until moistened.
  6. Fill each paper liner 3/4 full and bake for 25-30 minutes.
  7. After a tester comes out clean, remove the cupcakes from the oven and cool completely.

To make the buttercream:

  1. In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar, cocoa, vanilla, salt and milk 1 Tbs at a time until desired consistency.
  2. Frost the cupcakes and serve.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Birthday Cupcakes by Stephanie Greenleigh

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Comments

  1. Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} says

    October 20, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    Oh my they look so chocolatey, indulgent and pretty. I bet they tasted amazing. I can’t imagine how manic it must’ve been for helping your friend bake for a wedding. I catered for a party of 50 cupcakes made from scratch too and was shattered after – must’ve been the stress as I made hand painted gumpaste decorations too because 50 isn’t really a lot in party terms. Well done to you, they look wedding worthy. 🙂

    -Lisa.
    Sweet 2 Eat Baking

    Reply
    • Emily Dicks says

      October 21, 2012 at 12:23 pm

      Thanks Lisa! It was a lot of work but a lot of fun too!

      Reply
  2. Tanya-Lemonsforlulu.com says

    October 24, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Huh, I never used corn starch in a cupcake!! But oh my gosh, these look gorgeous! I’m always in need of a really good, moist chocolate cupcake, I have to pin these! Something in your post caught my eye, a non-cake lover????

    Reply
  3. Emily Dicks says

    October 24, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    The corn starch is to make a mock cake flour. Yes I don’t like cake, it’s a texture thing 🙂

    Reply
  4. Chelsea Peart says

    October 24, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    My dad would LOVE these! Thanks!
    Chelsea
    http://www.asilivewithanxiety.blogspot.com

    Reply
  5. Kathryn Ferguson Griffin says

    October 29, 2012 at 12:48 am

    Sweet, Lord! These look amazing. Thank you for sharing this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Hope to see your prettiness again on Monday. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse

    Reply
  6. Jamie @ Love Bakes Good Cakes says

    October 29, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    This has my name all over it! Yum! Thanks you for sharing at All my Bloggy Friends. I’m looking forward to seeing what you share this week! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Amanda says

    November 4, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Congratulations! You’ve been featured on this week’s Martha Mondays! 🙂 Swing by to pick up a “Featured” button and do a little bragging! 🙂

    http://www.watchoutmartha.net/2012/11/martha-mondays-link-up-party-features.html

    Amanda
    http://www.watchoutmartha.net

    Reply

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