Chocolate Cupcakes

Wishing you all a Very Happy Valentine’s Day!

This perfect chocolate cupcake is very rich, soft and best treat for chocolate lovers. 

Yield: 20 - 22 muffins

Recipe adapted from Hershey's

Ingredients

All purpose flour – 1¾ cups 

Sugar – 2 cups (powdered)

Baking powder – 1½ tsp 

Baking soda - 1½ tsp 

Salt – ½ tsp 

Cocoa powder - ¾ cup 

Vegetable oil –½ cup 

Egg – 2 

Milk – 1 cup 

Hot Water-  ¾ cup 

Vanilla essence - 2 tsp 

Directions

Preheat oven to 180 deg C. 

Line the cups of a muffin pan with paper liners. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Keep aside. 

In a separate bowl add oil, egg, milk and vanilla essence and blend until it is combined well. 

Mix the dry ingredients into wet mixture and beat on medium until combined.  Then, stir in hot water (this batter will be thin). 

Spoon the mixture into the muffin cups, filling each  about 2/3rd of a cup.

Bake at 180 deg C for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean. 

Remove the pan from the oven and let stand for 1 to 2 minutes, and then transfer the muffins with their paper cups to a wire rack.

Enjoy with your favourite frosting. 

Note:

I don't prefer frosting because there is already enough sweet to relish, so I just sprinkled some icing sugar in the heart stencil for valentine day spirit!

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