The technology for making chocolate cupcakes is so simple, and the taste is so delicate and refined that this dessert deserves special attention. Translated from English, cup cake is “cake in a cup”, which characterizes the original delicacy in the best possible way.
How are cupcakes different from muffins and cupcakes?
The dessert was first mentioned at the beginning of the 19th century and has American roots. It differs from muffins and cupcakes in decor in the form of cream, icing and cream. In addition, muffins, unlike cupcakes, can even be salty, and muffins have a more porous dough. Cupcakes are made from butter biscuit, and at the same time they show maximum creativity when serving. You can make them at home: just choose the recipe you like and prepare the necessary ingredients.
Recipe one - classic
If you are obsessed with chocolate, you will learn the recipe for these cupcakes by heart sooner or later. And now some secrets.
From kitchen utensils you will need 2 bowls (one for dry ingredients, the other for liquid ingredients), 1 whisk and 1 spatula. The base of these chocolate cupcakes and what is responsible for their ultra-moist texture is butter. Also make sure you use natural unsweetened cocoa powder. And don't be afraid that we'll be using baking soda along with baking powder.
Only fill cupcake liners halfway. Not two-thirds, not three-quarters, but half. Otherwise, you will get a squeezed top and a damp dough inside.
So get ready:
- 95 g wheat flour;
- 42 g cocoa powder;
- ¾ tsp baking powder;
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda;
- 1/4 teaspoon salt;
- 2 large chicken eggs previously pulled out of the refrigerator;
- 100 g white sugar;
- 100 g brown sugar;
- 80 ml of vegetable (for example, sunflower) oil;
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract;
- 120 ml buttermilk or curdled milk room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 177°C.
- Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a deep bowl until you get a uniform color powder. Set aside.
- Whisk the eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, butter and vanilla in a medium bowl until the mixture is completely smooth.
- Pour half of the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients.
- Then add half of the buttermilk (or curdled milk). Shake gently for a few seconds. Repeat until you have everything mixed.
- Pour or spoon the batter into the molds. Fill the forms only halfway.
- Bake the cupcakes for 18-21 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
The second recipe is festive
At first glance, it seems that only an experienced confectioner can create such a work of art, and even in miniature, but in fact, even a novice culinary specialist can handle such work.
To create a test you will need:
- 2 cups of flour;
- ¾ pack butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 140 g cocoa powder;
- 18 g baking powder for dough;
- half a glass of milk;
- a glass of granulated sugar.
When all the ingredients are at hand, you can start making classic chocolate cupcakes.
- Pour milk into a saucepan, add sugar, butter and cocoa, mix everything. It is desirable that the butter was initially at room temperature, like milk.
- Bring the mass to a boil, stirring with a wooden spatula, then remove from the stove and cool.
- Add eggs, mix.
- Sift the flour through a sieve, add to the finished chocolate mass along with the baking powder. The resulting dough should not be thick.
- Grease molds, fill two-thirds with the base.
- Bake in the oven for half an hour at 180 degrees.
In the meantime, you can start creating gentle cream. For this you will need the following products:
- 80 g of granulated sugar and cocoa;
- 15 g butter;
- 80 g sour cream with a fat content of 20–25%.
The technology for preparing such chocolate cupcakes is very simple: you just need to pour all the ingredients into a saucepan, mix, bring the mass to a boil, and then remove from heat. When the cream has cooled, they can decorate delicious cupcakes with chocolate on top. You can add nuts or powder if you like. The recipe is quite simple, and the cooking time does not take more than 50 minutes.
Recipe three - with chocolate chips
Housewives who want to surprise guests and households with an exquisite delicacy are advised to try making cupcakes with chocolate chips. Cooking time is similar to the previous recipe. With the indicated proportions of products, the output should be 18 mini-cakes.
As a chocolate filling for cupcakes, it is recommended to use heat-stable chocolate drops. An alternative is to simply grind up a bar of dark chocolate.
List of required ingredients:
- half a pack of butter;
- a glass of flour;
- 1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- half a glass of milk;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a cup of chocolate chips.
- Take the butter out of the refrigerator and let it warm up to room temperature.
- Mix it with sugar, beat with a mixer.
- Pour well-sifted flour into a separate container, add salt and baking powder. Mix all ingredients.
- Add eggs to sweet butter mixture, beat with a mixer. It is better to introduce eggs gradually, one at a time.
- Pour milk into the same container, mix, pour flour with baking powder, add chocolate chips.
- Grease the baking molds, fill two-thirds with the dough.
- Bake for half an hour in the oven at 180 degrees.
- Decorate with cream on top.
Such cupcakes with chocolate filling will not leave indifferent any sweet tooth and will become the real pride of any housewife. Dessert is perfect for a festive tea party.
Fourth recipe - with creamy filling
Very juicy and tender mini-cakes are obtained with creamy filling. And although cooking takes a little longer than in previous recipes, the result will amaze all guests and households.
At the preliminary stage, you need to purchase necessary products. For chocolate dough you will need:
- 180 g wheat flour;
- 80 g of powdered sugar;
- 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder;
- a pinch of baking powder for dough;
- packaging of vanilla sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of honey and cognac;
- 150 g of oil;
- ¾ cup milk;
- a teaspoon of baking soda, slaked with vinegar.
- To create the base, you need to mix all the bulk ingredients in a large container, mix with a spatula.
- Then add the rest of the products and beat with a mixer until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Here the dough is ready. It remains to pour it into molds and send it to the oven for 25 minutes, remembering to set the temperature to 180 degrees.
As for the filling, it can be prepared in two ways.
- Whip 2 tablespoons of mascarpone cheese, adding cream and granulated sugar taste.
- Mix 50 ml of cream with granulated sugar.
To prepare ganache, melt 2 bars of dark natural chocolate with 40 grams of butter in a water bath, then add half a glass of cream to the resulting mixture. Beat the mass well until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
In cupcakes, make small holes 10 mm in size, remove excess dough. Pour the filling into a confectionery syringe and fill in the voids. Decorate the dessert with chocolate cream on top and sprinkle with grated milk chocolate for beauty. Such mouth-watering and satisfying delicacies will appeal to all the sweet tooth and go well with tea.
He needs to infuse, so I suggest preparing ganache in advance, conveniently - overnight. I made ganache on milk chocolate in a ratio of 1: 1. 250 g chocolate and 250 g cream 33%. See technology.
Let's make dough!
Wash the orange, remove the zest with a fine grater. It is more convenient if the orange is thick-skinned and cellulite.
Let's squeeze the juice. It will come in handy for the syrup. Let's put it aside.
In a large bowl, beat with a mixer at high speed 100 g of butter at room temperature and 200 g of powdered sugar.
Add 2 eggs one at a time, beating each time.
Add zest and stir.
In a separate bowl, mix 110 g of hot coffee (in a liquid state, cook the delicious one you like, or dissolve freeze-dried) and 120 g of sour cream 20%.
In another bowl, sift and mix 200 g flour, 50 g cocoa powder and 1 tsp. soda.
Now alternately add dry and liquid ingredients to the egg-butter mixture. Stir thoroughly each time. Here we poured flour.
And here is the coffee with sour cream.
Finish with dry ingredients.
The dough is ready!
Bake the base for cupcakes!
We take metal mold for cupcakes, suitable in size to our capsules. Insert capsules. And fill with dough for 2/3. The easiest way to do this is with an ice cream scoop! I've heard of this before, but now I've tried it and I love it! I tried to squeeze it out of a pastry bag - it's troublesome and inconvenient, a spoon is just class!
Filled and knocked on the table with a form to smooth out the dough a little.
And then put in the oven, preheated to 160 degrees. Sometimes it is advised to put cupcakes in a cold oven, they say, then the tops do not rise, but I tried and the trick failed (the fakir was drunk). Still getting up! So you can warm up. Bake, if you have large capsules like mine, for about 40 minutes. If the capsules are smaller - about half an hour. We take out. And let it cool right in the form.
Let's make syrup!
In the juice of 1 orange, which we squeezed in advance, add 100 g of water and about 50 g of sugar (but in fact - to your taste: depending on the sweetness of the orange, it can be more or less), put on fire, bring to a boil and dissolve sugar, remove, cool.
Making chocolate decor
While the cupcakes are cooling, you can make a simple chocolate decoration. For this . Place in a dry and clean piping bag.
We take an acetate tape (a strip of any dense film).
Cut off the small end of the bag. And draw lines. We'll see how it goes:)
And on top of them are the same - in the other direction.
Let it crystallize for 15-20 minutes. Make sure the room is cool! Open a window or turn on the air conditioner.
Once the chocolate has hardened, cut into squares. The knife can be heated. This is the most difficult thing here - to make exactly even squares. As I understand it, only practice will help. Part of me broke, but it still looked beautiful, especially with kandurin. The thinner the mesh, the more difficult, keep in mind if you do.
This is how things turned out.
And now we have nothing to do - take out the middles from the cupcakes (I showed how to do this). Lightly saturate cupcakes with syrup, pouring directly into the resulting recess. In addition, you can pierce the cake in several places with a skewer to make it easier for the syrup to penetrate inside. Fill cupcakes with pre-cooked orange jam cinnamon. Remove the ganache from the refrigerator, beat it lightly, place an open star (or whatever you prefer) in a piping bag with a nozzle and set off the caps. I gave MK on them. Now all that's left is to decorate the cupcakes! I used roasted almonds, chocolate chips we just made, golden kandurine, and Maltesers. Oreo cookies also look good.
And this is what they look like cross-sectional!
Chocolate cupcakes are small cakes baked in cupcake or muffin tins. To decorate such a delicacy, you can use any icing, a variety of creams, whipped cream, and so on. How are chocolate cupcakes made? The recipes for this dessert are very diverse. You can choose according to your taste.
Classic chocolate cupcakes
To prepare 16 servings of this dessert, you will need:
- flour - 1 and 1/3 cups;
- baking soda - ¼ teaspoon;
- baking powder - 2 teaspoons;
- cocoa - ¾ cup;
- salt - 1/8 teaspoon;
- softened butter - 3 tablespoons;
- sugar - 1 ½ cups;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- vanilla sugar or vanilla extract - ¾ teaspoon;
- milk - 1 glass.
How to cook dough
To make chocolate cupcakes, sift flour mixed with salt, soda and cocoa into a deep container. In a separate bowl, put the softened cream-based butter and sugar. The components must be well beaten to get an airy and light mass. Add the eggs to the mixture one at a time. In this case, it is worth observing the rule. After each egg, the mass should be beaten. Finally, add vanilla to the resulting mixture.
In a creamy substance, it is worth adding milk and flour alternately in small portions. At the end, the mass must be beaten again.
How to bake
Bake chocolate cupcakes in an oven heated to 180 ° C. Muffin pans should be lined with parchment paper or well greased with butter and lightly dusted with flour. After that, you need to fill them with dough. The mass should fill no more than ¾ of the entire volume of the form.
The process of baking dessert takes no more than 17 minutes. You can check the readiness of the dessert with a toothpick. It is enough to pierce the cupcake in the center. If it is baked, the toothpick will be dry. When the cake has cooled, you can decorate it with your favorite cream or whipped cream. From above, all this should be sprinkled with coconut flakes or multi-colored sprinkles. To make the cakes look more original, you can use fresh berries or pieces of fruit.
Cupcakes with liquid filling
How to make chocolate cupcakes with filling? The recipe for this delicacy is quite simple. To begin with, it is worth preparing the products:
Choice of chocolate
To get perfect chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream inside, you should use only dark chocolate. At the same time, the cocoa content in it should be from 70 to 80%. Then it will turn out liquid filling. It is worth considering that cupcakes with this component are slightly bitter. However, such products are ideally combined with creamy ice cream. If you prefer sweet pastries, then it is better to use dark chocolate, which contains from 50 to 60% cocoa.
Do not use milk chocolate to make cupcakes. With such a component, pastries turn out to be too sweet and rise very poorly. It is also not recommended to use chocolate bars for making cupcakes, but only a real product.
Combining butter and chocolate
To make cupcakes with chocolate filling, you need to cut the butter from the cream into pieces. Chocolate should be carefully broken. Components should be placed in a deep container. All this should be placed in a water bath. Melt the butter and chocolate and mix so that a homogeneous mass is obtained. If the mixture came out too hot, then it should be cooled.
You can also melt food in the microwave. However, with this method, it is worth making sure that the chocolate does not curdle. To do this, the mixture must be gently heated and stirred every 10 seconds. Don't post right away long time on the timer. It will only spoil the products. Also, do not melt butter and chocolate directly on the stove.
kneading the dough
Everyone loves chocolate cupcakes. Recipes for such a delicacy can be mastered even by novice pastry chefs. When chocolate mass will be ready, it should be cooled. During this time, you can prepare eggs and sugar. These components should be combined, and then whipped so that a thick white foam is obtained. into the container with the egg mass, carefully introduce the cooled chocolate. Products must be mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The main thing is that the chocolate is not hot. Otherwise, the egg will curl.
In the resulting composition, it is necessary to introduce flour mixed with salt and pre-sifted. The dough must be mixed well. However, do not knead it for a long time. Otherwise, the flour will begin to release gluten, which will make the dough very dense, and the cupcakes simply will not rise.
How to bake
Muffins for cupcakes should be carefully greased with oil, and then filled with dough. From the specified number of components, 9 cupcakes are obtained. Do not fill molds to the very top. It is worth leaving a little space, as such pastries will still rise during the cooking process.
The molds should be placed in an oven preheated to a temperature of 200 ° C. The baking process takes no more than 10 minutes. You can determine the readiness of cupcakes by appearance. They rise and begin to crack slightly. Chocolate cupcakes with a liquid chocolate filling inside are best served hot with a serving of creamy ice cream.
Chocolate cream treat
To make delicious chocolate cupcakes, you will need:
- natural cocoa - 60 grams;
- boiling water - 100 milliliters;
- flour - 250 grams;
- soda and salt - 0.5 teaspoon each;
- baking powder - 0.5 teaspoon;
- cream-based butter - 150 grams;
- sugar - 200 grams;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- vanilla sugar - 1 large spoon;
- sour cream - 120 grams.
To prepare the cream you need:
How to cook
Cocoa must be poured with boiling water, and then mixed until smooth. Sugar and butter should be placed in a deep container and put on fire. The components must be boiled until the butter is completely melted. In this case, the mixture should be constantly stirred.
When the butter and chocolate have cooled, you need to beat them with a mixer until the temperature of the mixture reaches room temperature. It takes about 5 minutes. In the resulting substance, it is worth introducing eggs one at a time. Add sugar and cocoa to the mixture, and then beat until smooth.
Mix flour with baking powder, soda and salt, and then sift. The liquid component of the dough should be introduced into the dry components in small portions, alternating it with sour cream.
Chocolate cupcakes, the recipes of which are basically similar, should be baked in muffin tins, previously greased with cream butter. Fill them only ¾ of the total volume. Cupcakes need to be baked in the oven at 180˚C. Cooking time takes from twenty-five to thirty minutes. Readiness can be checked with a match or a toothpick. Take the cake out and let it cool completely.
Cooking cream and decorating
While the cupcakes are cooling, you can prepare the cream. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath. You can also do this in microwave oven. But at the same time, it is worth making sure that the product does not curl up.
Powdered sugar must be mixed with cocoa. Cream cheese and softened butter should be beaten until smooth. Add chocolate, cocoa with powdered sugar. Products should be whipped again.
The finished cream should be transferred to a pastry bag with a nozzle. After that, you can start decorating the cupcakes. When the pattern is laid out, you can sprinkle the cakes with multi-colored sprinkles or shavings from coconut pulp.
If desired, you can do it differently. In the cooled cupcakes, remove the core. Into the resulting hole is poured chocolate filling for cupcakes. After that, you can decorate everything. The top of the cake is completely covered with a layer of cream. The best way to do this is with a nozzle. Top with fresh strawberries or cherries. This will make the cupcakes more original and delicious.
After a break of almost a month, I still sat down to sort out the blockage with photos and recipes on my laptop and publish the recipe that is most often asked for in the comments under the photo in instagram. These are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream. There is already a recipe for chocolate cupcakes on the site. There I cooked them with the addition of cocoa. Today I will use melted chocolate in the recipe. Here I used milk chocolate, so it did not give such a bright and rich chocolate color. For this, it is better to use dark bitter chocolate. But the cupcakes are still delicious.
The cream is also very chocolatey. And don't get scared right away. Yes, this is the same oil cream not loved by many. But trust me if you buy good oil and good chocolate, then it would never occur to anyone that the cream is oily. At least all my friends who tried these cupcakes did not believe me. And this did not stop them from believing that it was the most delicious chocolate cream for the cupcakes they tried.
After a break of a month, I will probably not be very verbose, because I do not know what else to add. Can you add a few words about the decoration? After all, you can decorate cupcakes in absolutely any way convenient for you. In the photo, I decorated the cream caps with small marshmallows and marshmallows. chocolate drops. You can sprinkle with chocolate chips, put berries, insert a topper, or just leave it as it is. In any case, it will be very beautiful. And delicious!
In general, I will finish chatting for today and quickly move on to the list of ingredients.
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Ingredients
for 12 pieces
For cupcakes:
- 100 gr sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (or sugar)
- 100 gr sifted flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g melted and cooled chocolate
For cream:
- 100 g butter at room temperature
- 120 gr sifted powdered sugar
- 80 g of melted and slightly cooled chocolate.
Recipe
Before I cook, I will write again. The chocolate must be melted some time before the preparation of the dough. And let it cool down a little so that the butter in the dough does not start to melt from the hot chocolate. Eggs and butter must be removed at the same time so that they are at the same temperature.
- We heat the oven to 180C.
- Beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy for a few minutes.
- Add two eggs one at a time. Whisk thoroughly after each. With the last egg, add the vanilla extract.
- Mix the sifted flour with baking powder and add to the dough, mix.
- Add chocolate last, mix the dough again and put it in a muffin mold with paper molds.
- We bake cupcakes in an oven preheated to 180C for 23-25 minutes until cooked. Then let them cool completely and you can decorate with cream.
Cream:
When preparing the cream, chocolate also needs to be melted a little in advance. All for the same reasons - so that the butter in the cream does not begin to melt. The most important thing in cooking butter cream- do not be lazy and beat a sufficient amount of time. It takes me at least 5 minutes.
- Beat room temperature butter until light and fluffy.
- Sift the icing sugar and immediately add it to the butter. Mix at low speed, and then increase it and beat for the next 5-7 minutes.
- Add melted chocolate, beat a little more. After that, the cream can be transferred to a pastry bag with a nozzle and decorate our cupcakes.
Cupcakes are called small sizes portioned cupcake in the form of a cup with filling on top. Chocolate cupcakes look very similar to muffins, which can be seen in photo 1. However, these 2 types of dessert are actually very different, not only in the composition of the ingredients, but also in the method of preparation. A chocolate cupcake is a regular cake, a buttery biscuit that is baked in special molds.
Photo 1. Cupcakes with triple chocolate.
What is the difference between cupcakes and muffins?
Cupcakes have American roots, muffins first appeared in England, while cupcakes originated in France. Cupcakes are small cakes in paper cups, just like cupcake muffins. The term cupcake was first mentioned in 1828 in cookbook E. Leslie. In the old days, very often cakes were baked in ceramic dishes the size of a teacup, hence the name of this dessert. Today, a cupcake is called any small-sized cake.
Cupcakes have a clear difference: this is a decoration in the form of cream, cream, icing, etc., which are used to decorate cakes. These little goodies are in great demand for children's tables and holidays. Such a dessert quickly became popular throughout America, and then conquered Europe.
The main differences between cupcakes and cupcakes and muffins:
- cupcakes are whipped more during cooking, so they turn out to be more airy and porous;
- muffins are flatter in shape than cupcakes, and they are made not only sweet, but also salty, while cupcakes and muffins are always made sweet;
- cupcakes and muffins are generally not decorated.
Making chocolate cupcakes classic recipe even an inexperienced hostess can handle it. The result is an effective and delicious dessert, especially if you pay attention to additional decoration.
This dish will please the whole family and pleasantly surprise guests.
To prepare the base, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- butter (margarine) - 150 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- milk - 100 ml;
- cocoa powder - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- baking powder - 2 tsp. You can replace 1 teaspoon of soda slaked with vinegar;
- flour - 200 g.
To make cream for small cakes you will need:
- sour cream (at least 20%) - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- nuts or confectionery powder - optional and to taste.
The above ingredients are enough to prepare a fairly large number of chocolate cupcakes.
To make the dough, mix cocoa powder, butter, milk and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil in a saucepan and then remove from heat. Allow the dough to cool, then add the eggs, mix everything well until smooth and add flour with baking powder. You should get a mass of not very thick consistency.
Oiled cupcake molds must be filled 2/3 with dough and sent to a preheated oven at 180 ° C for 20-30 minutes.
While the base is baking, you can prepare the cream. To do this, mix sour cream with butter, cocoa and sugar in a separate container. The resulting mixture must be put on fire until the first boiling bubbles appear, and then removed. The cooled cream can be spread on the finished base. This recipe will not spoil, but only complement the decoration with chopped nuts or colored chips (photo 2).
Cupcakes with filling
The recipe for small ones with filling is an option for real sweet tooth and gourmets.
To make cupcakes, you will need the following ingredients:
- flour - 90 g;
- cocoa - 25 g;
- baking powder - 1/3 teaspoon;
- vanilla sugar;
- cognac - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- honey (dark molasses) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- powdered sugar - 40 gr;
- melted butter - 75 g;
- milk - 75 ml;
- soda slaked with vinegar or lemon - 0.5 tsp.
The filling can be prepared in 2 ways. For option 1 you need:
- cream cheese mascarpone - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cream or milk to taste;
- sugar to taste.
For the 2nd option you will need:
- fat cream - 25 ml;
- sugar to taste.
To make ganache you need:
- milk chocolate - 100 g;
- cream - 45 ml;
- butter - 20 g.
It is also necessary to prepare for decoration 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed milk chocolate.
To prepare the base of cupcakes, you need to sifted flour and mix all the dry ingredients, then add the remaining ingredients and beat everything with a blender until smooth. Slaked soda is recommended to be added last. The resulting dough is laid out on paper forms by 3/4. Cupcakes are baked in the oven for about 20 minutes.
While the cupcakes are cooking, you can start preparing the filling. To do this, mix mascarpone with milk and sugar, beat everything with a blender. Or you can just mix sugar with cream. The resulting mass must be put in a pastry bag. You should also prepare the ganache in advance by melting chocolate with butter in a water bath and adding cream, then beat until smooth.
After the base has cooled, you need to make 1 cm holes on top with a knife and remove a little dough from the middle. The holes are filled with cream, and on top of the cupcakes are covered with ganache. Top dessert can be decorated with milk chocolate shavings. The result is a dessert, as in photo 3. Bon appetit!
