best Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream
 
 
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups (180 g) all purpose flour
  • ¾ cups (90 g) cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp (4 g) coffee powder
  • ½ tsp (3 g) baking soda
  • 1 tsp (4 g) baking powder
  • ¾ cup (180 ml) vegetable oil
  • 1½ cups (300 g) sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ tsp (2.5ml) vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup (180ml) milk + 1 tsp (5ml) white vinegar, mixed together and rested for at least 5 minutes
For buttercream
  • ½ cup (100 g) butter
  • 1 cup (130 g) icing sugar
  • ¼ cup (30 g) cocoa powder
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners.
  2. Whisk cocoa, flour, coffee powder, baking soda and baking powder into a bowl.
  3. In a large bowl, beat oil with sugar.
  4. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well after each addition
  5. Beat in vanilla using mixer at low
  6. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients alternating with milk, starting and ending with flour mixture. Beat until smooth
  7. Pour the batter into cupcake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean
  8. To make the frosting, beat the butter till it becomes pale. Sift in half of icing sugar and beat again. Once incorporated, sift in second half of icing sugar along with cocoa powder and beat till the frosting becomes stiff and stable.
  9. Generously top the cupcakes with frosting once they have cooled completely.
Recipe by Bake with Shivesh at https://bakewithshivesh.com/best-chocolate-cupcakes-with-chocolate-buttercream/