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.
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 with Chocolate Buttercream
Prep
Cook
Total
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:
- Preheat your oven to 350º and line 2, 12 muffin cup pans with paper liners.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer add the flour, corn starch, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt, stir to combine.
- In a large bowl add the cocoa powder to the warm water and carefully stir until smooth.
- Beat in the eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla until combined.
- Add the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until moistened.
- Fill each paper liner 3/4 full and bake for 25-30 minutes.
- After a tester comes out clean, remove the cupcakes from the oven and cool completely.
To make the buttercream:
- 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.
- Frost the cupcakes and serve.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Birthday Cupcakes by Stephanie Greenleigh
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
Thanks Lisa! It was a lot of work but a lot of fun too!
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????
The corn starch is to make a mock cake flour. Yes I don’t like cake, it’s a texture thing 🙂
My dad would LOVE these! Thanks!
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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
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! 🙂
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