Basic Chocolate Cupcakes
Your go-to recipe for a standard batch of chocolate cupcakes
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- Little Less than ½ cup Sugar
- ½ cup Flour
- ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Baking Soda
- Pinch Salt
- 1 Egg (beaten)
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 2 tbsp Oil
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ cup hot coffee 1 tbsp instant coffee powder in 1/4 cup hot water
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 175°C.
- Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
- Add sugar to the bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Add beaten egg, milk, oil and vanilla to the dry ingredients and beat with a hand mixer for two minutes.
- Add hot coffee and beat until just combined.
- Divide the batter between 6 muffin cups, filling each until just over halfway full.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cupcake comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool in the tray for ten minutes and then transfer them onto a wire rack.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Since this is quite a runny batter, I like to transfer it into a piping bag. Just snip the end off and you can avoid the scooping mess!