Simple Way to Prepare Award-winning Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes.

You can cook Chocolate Cupcakes using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cupcakes

1. It's 175 g of plain flour.
2. It's 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
3. It's 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
4. Prepare 75 g of cocoa powder.
5. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon of salt.
6. Prepare 3 tablespoons of butter softened.
7. It's 300 g of caster sugar.
8. Prepare 2 of eggs.
9. It's 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
10. You need 250 ml of milk.
11. It's of Chocolate buttercream frosting.
12. Prepare 1 cup of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
13. Prepare 3 and 1/2 cups of icing sugar.
14. Prepare 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.
15. Prepare 3 Tablespoons of heavy cream or milk.
16. It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
17. You need 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract.
18. It's of Sprinklers few.

Chocolate Cupcakes instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Line a tray with paper cups..
2. Sift together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa and salt.Set aside..
3. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy..
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla..
5. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk; beat well. Fill the paper cups 3/4's full..
6. Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
7. Chocolate butter cream frosting :- With a hand mixer  beat the butter on medium speed until creamy - about 2 minutes.
8. Add icing sugar, cocoa powder, heavy cream, salt, and vanilla extract. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds, then increase to high speed and beat for 2 full minutes.
9. Add up to 1/2 cup more sugar if frosting is too thin or another Tablespoon of cream if frosting is too thick..