How to Make Chocolate Cupcakes - Easy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today we are going to make a chocolate cupcakes with a classic cream cheese frosting, mmm
yummy, super delicious, super easy to make, lets get started.
First let's go ahead and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
For the ingredients we have, one egg, one half-cup oil, canola oil or vegetable oil,
on teaspoon of vanilla, one teaspoon of distilled white vinegar, we have one cup of water, one
and one half cups of flour, one cup of sugar, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking
soda, and one half cup of cocoa powder.
All right, now let's go ahead and combine our dry ingredients.
So I am going to use a sifter, if you don't have a sifter that is ok, you can use your
whisk.
So I am going to put, my flour in here, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt, and sugar.
Let's go ahead and start sifting.
Some times the cocoa powder gets a little clumpy so it is worth it to do the sifting.
And then I am also going to just for good measure come in here and give it a nice whisk.
Now let's combine our wet ingredients.
So we are going to start with our water, oil, vinegar, vanilla, and our egg.
Then we will take the whisk and we are going to mix it all together.
Ok now let's start adding our dry ingredients, so I am going to just go ahead and put that
in there, like that, set that aside, at this point I am going to use my wooden spoon, and
mix it all together.
So now we want to fill up our paper cups.
So what I am going to do is I am going to use this little fourth cup here, and I am
going to just dip it in, and we want to fill it up about two thirds of the way, just like
that.
And then you continue to fill the rest of them up.
So this recipe will make 18 to 20 cupcakes.
So I will wind up making about 8 more of these.
And once you are done, you put this in the oven, and you bake them at 350 degrees for
15 to 17 minutes.
Ok when they come out of the oven they will look like this.
And now we let them cool completely, about 20 to 30 minutes.
In the mean time we can make our icing.
Ok while our cupcakes are cooling it is time to make our cream cheese frosting.
It is super easy to make.
Here are the ingredients, we have 4 cups of powdered sugar, and we have one half cup or
4 ounces of softened butter, and we have 8 ounces of cream cheese, and we have two teaspoons
of vanilla extract.
I also have, a zip lock bag with scissors, and I am going to use this zip lock bag as
my piping bag.
You can also use a cake-piping bag, professional piping bag, whatever you like to put the frosting
in.
So let�s go ahead and cream it all together.
I am going to start with my butter, get it all in there, then the cream cheese, vanilla,
and I am going to start with just a little bit of the powder sugar to start, about half
of it.
Ok, scrape the sides.
Let's add the rest of this.
And when you are done, your frosting will look nice and smooth just like that.
And there we go we are done.
All right our chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are done.
They look amazing, they are super easy to make, if I can make them, you can make them.
I am Matt Taylor, this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, stay tuned for
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Time for me to dive into one of these, oh yeah, mmm
super moist, super delicious.