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Best Ever Chocolate Cupcakes

May 4, 2013 By Jelli 8 Comments

Who’d have guessed that the best ever chocolate cupcakes would be vegan? You’ve got to be kidding, right?

Wrong.best chocolate vegan cupcakesI’m a stickler for chocolate cake that tastes like chocolate. No light brown tortes parading as chocolate ever come close to meeting my deep, dark, rich chocolate loving standards. People, these cupcakes deliver! Now, my absolute favorite chocolate cake recipe is perfect for large cakes, but the cuppies always turn out flat. Therefore, I keep a handy dandy recipe for best ever chocolate cupcakes in my baking arsenal too. Even if you’re not vegan (I’m not), you’ll be floored by the lush chocolate flavor, domed tops, and moist, spongy texture of these incredible chocolate cupcakes. Give them a try!

Keep your eyes peeled for the best ever chocolate frosting recipe I used for these bad boys. In the meantime, slather the cupcakes with this fast 2-ingredient chocolate ganache, simply sweet vanilla buttercream, or a creamy, dreamy peanut butter frosting.

Best Ever Chocolate Cupcakes
 
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Serves: 1 dozen
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups cake flour or sifted all purpose flour
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon white vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1¼ cups water *or milk, if you're not into the vegan thing
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners; set aside.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together all dry ingredients including sugar. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl or standing mixer, beat together oil, vinegar, vanilla, and water until well combined. Add dry ingredients to wet and mix until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula as necessary. Batter should look and feel more liquidy than normal cake batters.
  4. Pour batter into prepared muffin tin, filling each cup ½ to ¾ full. Transfer to oven and bake, rotating pan halfway through cooking, until a cake tester inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
  5. Immediately remove cupcakes from muffin tin and transfer to a wire rack. Let cool completely before frosting
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Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Cake, chocolate, Cupcakes, Vegan

About Jelli

Jelli is a blogging veteran and avid baker who’s been selling sweets to feed her chocolate addiction for 8+ years. When the polka dotted apron’s hanging up, she’s a full-time mama to three kidlets enjoying the crazy days of motherhood and pumping out brownie recipes from her sunny Costa Rican kitchen.

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Comments

  1. Yen at GHOTH says

    May 4, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    mmmm cupcake! gimme gimme 🙂

    Reply
  2. Nicolette Springer says

    May 5, 2013 at 9:48 am

    I’ve tried the original recipe from Martha and it is wonderful. So smart, I had never thought of replacing the milk with water. I’ll have to give it a try next time I have vegan friends over.

    Reply
    • Jelli says

      May 5, 2013 at 8:11 pm

      I really love these not only because of the exquisite flavor, but because they always yield those pretty domed tops. Glad to hear that someone else is a fan too!

      Reply
  3. aimymichelle says

    May 7, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    these look amazing.

    i’m a new follower.

    Reply
  4. Amy of while wearing heels says

    May 8, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Oh, yum. These look delicious. I love rainbow sprinkles, too!

    Reply
    • Jelli says

      May 8, 2013 at 5:53 pm

      They are incredible, Amy. If you bake them, be sure to have friends over to help you eat them. Way too tempting to keep around the house 🙂

      Reply
  5. Sanz @ From The Mrs. says

    May 8, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    Oh yum! Those look delicious! I would love to eat one…right now! 🙂 You’ve got a cute site!

    Reply
  6. Christine says

    May 13, 2013 at 9:16 am

    They look soooo YUMMY!

    Reply

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