Party food: Chocolate cupcakes
Sorry it took so long to post this! The cupcakes were made for a surprise party, so I didn’t want to upload the recipe and ruin the surprise. Anyway, this is a recipe I got from the blog Obsessed with Baking.
Finally, contrasting colours!
Om nom nom
After the addition of the water, which made the batter super runny, but that is what’s supposed to happen.
Pre oven
Post-oven
Ingredients:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup Cocoa (the plain kind, not hot chocolate mix)
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare your cake pans / cupcake pan by greasing them.
- Stir together cocoa, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, oil, milk and vanilla and blend in a mixer.
- Stir in boiling water.
- ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Heat oven to 350° F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely. Frost.
- THREE LAYER CAKE: Grease and flour three 8-inch round baking pans. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost.
- BUNDT CAKE: Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost.
- CUPCAKES: Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fill cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 22 to 25 minutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.
Butter Frosting
Look how pretty! (And yes, the bowls match the icing)
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine
- dash salt
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2-3 Tbsp. hot milk or cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Now, part of the surprise party was that all the guests decorated their own cupcakes. I chose one that I thought was the most presentable for the blog to be the valedictorian cupcake:
