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Chocolate Cupcakes
These chocolate cupcakes are really, really good. Once you eat one it is hard to resist another one. They are very chocolaty and delicious and a hint of coffee just adds to the flavor. These chocolate cupcakes are delicious topped with chocolate buttercream icing or peanut butter buttercream icing.
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
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- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup dutch processed cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. kosher salt
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups buttermilk, shaken
- ½ cup warm water
- 2 tsp. instant coffee granules
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Whip butter and sugars together on medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping bowl when necessary.
- Sift or whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together and set aside.
- Whisk together the eggs and vanilla with the buttermilk.
- To the butter mixture add about ⅓ of the dry ingredients then ⅓ of the butter egg mixture, repeat until all of these ingredients are incorporated.
- Mix the coffee granules with the warm water. Pour this into the mixture and mix until combined.
- Scoop batter into 24 cupcake.
- Bake 15-20 minutes or until the cupcakes come out clean.*
- Let cool in pan for about 5-10 minutes, then take out cupcakes and let them cool more until room temperature.
Notes
*Mini cup cakes cook for 10 to 15 minutes, or till cake tester comes clean.
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