Chocolate cupcakes

For her birthday Ana requested her favourite chocolate cupcakes. This is the best recipe I’ve tried so far! The cake part is rich and the frosting is buttery sweet and easy to work with. 

Ingredients for the cake part

¼ cup (52gr) unsalted room temperature butter

1 cup (128gr) sugar

2 ounces (56gr) dark chocolate

2 eggs

2 egg yolks

½ cup (170gr)+1tbsp oil

2tsp vanilla extract

1/3 cup (113gr) sour cream

1 cup (136gr) all purpose flour

½ tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

½ cup (64gr) cocoa powder

½ cup (170gr) room temperature water

Proces

Preheat the oven to 175°.

Mix sugar and butter until combined, it should look like wet sand in the end.

Melt the chocolate and let cool until finger warm then add it to the sugar and butter mixture and combine.

Mix in the eggs and the yolks one at the time until just combined.

Mix in oil, vanilla and sour cream until just combined.

Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder then mix with the fork. Add to wet mixture in three additions mixing until just combined.

Mix in water until just combined.

Fill the cupcakes forms until 2/3 full then bake. Check after 18min, if the toothpick comes out clean take them out and cool. 

Ingredients for the frosting

180gr room temperature cream cheese

80gr room temperature unsalted butter

430gr sifter powdered sugar

80gr cocoa powder

Poces

Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth.

Mix in powdered sugar one cup at the time.

Min in cocoa powder.

Pipe the frosting on to the cakes.

 M