I have made quite a few cupcakes in my day, but in recent months I have been doing them by scratch. I find making homemade desserts to be a rather rewarding process from start to finish. These little beauties happen to be at the top of my cupcake list. The cake is a recipe that I found on a food/recipe board, I would credit the gal, but I do not know if she has a blog. The frosting is called Buttercream Dream and is a favorite of the same message board. This is my go to frosting when I am looking to top something with that delicious taste of buttercream. Here is the fantastic cake recipe:
July 22nd, 2008
Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup oil (I use canola)
2 cups hot water
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
Directions:
Mix everything in a bowl until you get a thin batter. I then poured the batter into mini muffin tins with cupcake liners. Bake them at 350 degrees until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. I started checking my cupcakes after about 6 minutes. I then topped the mini cupcakes with the chocolate buttercream frosting. I added cocoa powder to the frosting by the tablespoon until I reached the desired flavor. I also added brown Wilton Gel Dye until I reached the desired color. After the frosting was piped on, I topped with chocolate sprinkles!
Notes:
Click here for the Buttercream Dream recipe as well as a great picture tutorial!
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gorgeous cupcakes! great photographs;)
Thanks so much!
Those cupcakes look wonderful, Jamie! It’s amazing, it doesn’t really take much more time to do from scratch than from a box, but it tastes so much better (and is more gratifying too). Great job!
Beautiful, beautiful stuff. We have quite a few family events coming up and I do believe that these would make many of the kids (and the adults) rather happy. Thanks so much for sharing. There is a certain joy in scratch baking, isn’t there?
Another Cake Central junkie i bet
I read your tutorial on the Buttercream Dream icing. I’ve made buttercream dream once and really enjoyed it. I have a heard time
getting unsalted butter though.
If I make a standard buttercream too thin I just add more powdered sugar to stiffen it up and it works well.
Loving your blog. Found it though foodgawker.
I've been enjoying your blog for a few months now.
Today when I came across these cupcakes I just had to make them (I'm 9 months pregnant cut me some slack:). They are SO yummy! I'm a big fan of the buttercream you used here, I'll use it again for sure & it is so good with coco powder!
The kids & husband couldn't get enough!
I loved your chocolate cake recipe from the chocolate and orange frosting cupcakes. It was absolutley superb and I was hoping to see it in this recipe with a chocolate frosting to go with it.
THIS CUPCAKE IS A TOTAL WINNER!!!!!
How many does this recipe yield? They look amazing!
Mollie-
Unfortunately, this is one of the first recipes that I ever blogged, so I honestly have no idea of the yield as I didn’t post it back then. I’m going to guess 24 based upon the ingredients – sorry I’m not more of a help.
-Jamie
I just made 30 of them
Hi i baked this for my bf birthday party and they were just great!!! But i have a q … The 350 degrees in the oven is F or C??? When I baked them I. Set the oven at 200 C… And it took longer for them to be ready
MJ-
Yes, all 350 degrees F. Glad to hear that you enjoyed them.
-Jamie
These were by far the BEST cupcakes I have ever made!! I was skeptical when the batter was so runny but figured, I’ve made them, might as well bake them. Honestly beat a cupcake I bought in Vegas at a Cupcakery!! I topped them with a simple vanilla buttercream! Everyone was begging for me! Great recipe!
Definitely try these!!!
Robyn-
I am so happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe. Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your feedback – have a great day!
-Jamie
Baked these yesterday and they were wonderful!! This tops my list of cupcake batter recipes. They were light and moist, just the way I like them. Thank you for the amazing recipe…now I shall try them out in different flavors..mmmmmm…
I made these cupcakes and tweaked the recipe into andes mint cupcakes! This is seriously the moistest chocolate cupcake recipe ever. I think I may have eaten like 6 of them because they were so addictive. Thank you so much for posting this delicioso recipe!
http://hungryhungryhighness.blogspot.com/2013/03/andes-mint-cupcakes.html