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Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

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If you love chocolate, you're going to love these scrumptious cupcakes. Chocolate curls are a showy way to top these gorgeous gems.—Marlene Martin, Country Harbour Mines, Nova Scotia

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Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 15 min. + cooling

Yield: 16 Servings

20 15 35

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup buttermilk
Chocolate frosting and multi-colored sprinkles

Directions

In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with water and buttermilk, beating well after each addition.
Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Frost cupcakes and decorate with sprinkles. Yield: 16 cupcakes.

Nutritional Facts 1 cupcake (calculated without frosting) equals 157 calories, 6 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 29 mg cholesterol, 169 mg sodium, 23 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1 fat.

Originally published as Chocolate Cupcakes in Country Woman January/February 2000, p58

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Reviewed on Jun. 14, 2010 by janoeynelson

Fabulous! Moist and yummy. I added some dark chocolate cocoa and chocolate taste was very good.

Reviewed on Jun. 14, 2010 by janoeynelson

Fabulous! Moist and yummy. I added some dark chocolate cocoa and chocolate taste was very good.

Reviewed on Jun. 07, 2010 by bziol

Chocolate curls are made by using a vegetable peeler to thick "peel" on a bar of good chocolate. From the picture the frosting looks like a standard chocolate buttercream

Reviewed on Jun. 07, 2010 by beckysunny

Nice cupcake but no directions for yummy looking frosting nor help on making chocolate curls which made the cupcake look so lovely!

Reviewed on Jun. 07, 2010 by janiemae2002

Sounds good, but what kind of icing, and how do you make the chocolate curls?

Reviewed on Jun. 07, 2010 by necerae

the recipe is fine, but since the descriptions spoke of the chocolate curles being a showy way to display the cupcake, I expected to be told how to do the curls. When I have tried it in the past, I get chocolate sprinkles instead of curls, how do you get them to look like these?

Reviewed on Nov. 01, 2009 by Linda Comstock

This is the first time I've made chocolate cupcakes from scratch, so I'm not sure how these compare to other recipes, but I thought they were really good. Soft, fairly moist, lots of flavor. The batter did seem a bit thick, so I added an extra tablespoon of water. I also added a few chocolate chips to each cupcake. Will definitely make these again.

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