Chocolate Cupcakes

Name: Chocolate Cupcakes
Prep time: 2 h 33 min
Cook time: 2 h 33 min
Total time: 2 h 33 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 28 grams bittersweet chocolate; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters whole buttermilk; 414 milliliters ounces cake flour (about; 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 3 larges egg whites; 2 larges egg yolks; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons salt; 315 milliliters sugar; 355 milliliters sugar; 57 grams unsweetened baking chocolate; 59 milliliters unsweetened cocoa; 118 milliliters unsweetened cocoa; 1 vanilla bean; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 79 milliliters water

Chocolate Cupcakes might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 199 calories, 3g of protein, and 7g of fat. This recipe serves 24. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. Head to the store and pick up baking chocolate, sugar, bittersweet chocolate, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 33 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

To prepare cake, weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

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All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Knife

Combine flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir in 1/2 cup cocoa.

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Baking Soda

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Place butter and 1 1/4 cups sugar in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until well blended.

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Butter

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Reduce mixer speed to low.

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Vanilla Extract

Egg Yolk

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Blender

Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture, and beat just until combined. Melt unsweetened chocolate, and stir into batter. Using clean, dry beaters, beat 3 egg whites and 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar at high speed until stiff peaks form. Fold one-third of egg whites into batter. Gently fold in the remaining egg whites.

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Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

Cream Of Tartar

Buttermilk

Egg Whites

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Line 24 muffin cups with cupcake liners; coat with baking spray. Spoon batter into cups.

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Baking Spray

Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Bake at 350 for 23 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into centers comes out with moist crumbs clinging. Cool in pans 10 minutes.

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Oven

Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

To prepare frosting, place 1 1/3 cups sugar, water, and vanilla bean in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Without stirring, cook 3 minutes or until a candy thermometer registers 250; discard vanilla bean.

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Vanilla Bean

Frosting

Candy

Sugar

Water

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Candy Thermometer

Sauce Pan

Combine 3 egg whites, 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a large bowl; using clean, dry beaters, beat with a mixer at high speed until foamy.

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Cream Of Tartar

Egg Whites

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

Pour hot sugar syrup in a thin stream over egg whites, beating at high speed until stiff peaks form. Reduce mixer speed to low; continue beating until mixture cools (12 minutes). Fold in 1/4 cup cocoa.

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Simple Syrup

Egg Whites

Cocoa Powder

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Blender

Top cupcakes with frosting. Shave bittersweet chocolate over frosted cupcakes.

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Bittersweet Chocolate

Cupcakes

Frosting

Proper Chocolate Shavings: Use a block or bar of good chocolate for your garnish of chocolate curls. If you rub your thumb over the surface two or three times and then shave, the curls will be less brittle and less likely to crack and break.

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Chocolate Curls