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his is the recipe for you if you love chocolate cupcakes and you're the kind of cook that enjoys the challenge of making it your own! Make these delicious cupcakes as a simple snack cupcakes or add goodies chocolate chips, nuts, raisins and a big fat, yummy drizzle of butterscotch.
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These cupcakes are super easy and delicious with or without decorating. Just combine the dry ingredients, then combine the wet ingredients, once done, simply add the dry to the wet, and like magic, they're almost ready for the oven. We suggest mixing up several ziplock bags of dry ingredients in advance and the process will be even faster.
chocolate cupcakes
Dry Ingredients:
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1 cup all-purpose flour
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1 cup granulated sugar
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½ cup cocoa powder
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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½ teaspoon baking soda
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½ teaspoon salt
Frosting Method:
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Add the pudding powder to the heavy cream and stir until the powder is well incorporated. Whisk or beat cream with electric mixer until cream is fluffy and holds its shape for decorating. Take care not to over whip the cream or it will lose its smooth texture and appearance.
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Drizzle lightly with caramel sauce. If needed, thin sauce with corn syrup or room temperature cream or milk. Add any liquids sparingly and only as needed. Whisk well until sauce is smooth.
Please note: This recipe doubles and triples well.
There is no other dessert that hits-the-spot quite like a moist delicious cupcake!
Freezing Cupcakes, Directly Out of the Oven is the Secret to Amazingly Moist, Delicious Cupcakes... Honest !
Freezing cupcakes directly from the oven locks in all that wonderful moisture.
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Once frozen, take them out of the freezer, wrap them well so they won't suffer freezer burn, and just take a few out, as desired, or seal them well and place them in the refrigerator. Either way, the trick is to freeze them, locking in the moisture immediately from the oven.
We are all familiar with the instruction to place cakes and cupcakes on the cooling rakes to... "cool completely." But what this actually does is allows the precious steam to escape.
Crazy as it sounds..., we recommend that everyone try the 'freezing' trick and ...
be amazed!
How to Acheive
The Perfect Measure
Knowing Exactly How to Measure The Correct Amount of Flour is the Secret to Baking Like a Pastry Chef.
It is important to scoop the flour into a measuring cup, then sweep a knife over the top to level it off. Packing the flour will create a denser, drier cupcake.
Wet Ingredients:
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½ cup milk
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¼ cup vegetable oil
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1 large egg
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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½ cup coffee cooled
Frosting Ingredients:
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2 cups heavy whipping cream
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1 tablespoon (or less) of instant vanilla pudding powder. Any brand of instant pudding will work
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Commercially prepared caramel sauce
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Sprinkles as desired
Cupcake Method:
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Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line a cupcake pan with 15 cupcake liners, this will require either 2 cupcake pans or a cupcake pan that accommodates more than a dozen cupcakes. Set aside.
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Combine dry ingredients in a medium-size bowl and whisk to combine.
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Combine wet ingredients in a large-size bowl and whisk well to combine.
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Pour dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Stir with a whisk until all ingredients are combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl and continue to mix for another 10-15 seconds, until batter is smooth. Please note, the batter will be thin.
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Fill all cupcake liners only half full.
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Carefully place filled cupcake pan in the oven and reduce the temperature to 325˚F. Bake 25 - 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow the cupcakes to cool completely before decorating.
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