Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
A deliciously light, fluffy chocolate cupcake made with real chocolate and topped with the fudgiest chocolate cream cheese frosting. Feel free to double the recipe.
Servings: 16
Ingredients
Ultimate Chocolate Cupcake
- 160 g plain flour
- ½ tsp bicarbonate soda
- 120 g unsalted butter at room temperature
- 110 g sugar
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 90 g dark chocolate melted and cooled to lukewarm
- ½ cup buttermilk at room temperature
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Fudgey Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- 500 g pure icing sugar
- 170 g cream cheese at room temperature
- 60 g butter at room temperature
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 100 g dark chocolate melted and cooled to lukewarm
Instructions
Cupckaes
- Preheat oven to 180° celsius
- Line muffin tins with cupcake papers
- Sift the flour and bi carb soda and set aside
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter until smooth
- Add both sugars and beat until fluffy. This should take a few minutes
- Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well
- Mix in the chocolate
- In a small jug, combine the buttermilk and vanilla
- To the mixing bowl, add the sifted flour and bi carb in 3 parts, alternating with the buttermilk and vanilla.
- Scrape sides and bottom of bowl, then mix until batter is smooth
- Fill the cupcake papers about ⅔ full (I use an ice cream scoop)
- Bake for 20 minutes. Test with a cake tester -it should come out clean
- Allow cupcakes to cool in pans for 15 minutes, before cooling completely on a cooling rack
Frosting
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the icing sugar, butter, cream cheese and vanilla
- Mix on low speed until just combined
- Increase speed to medium high and mix until frosting is light and fluffy (approx 8 minutes)
- Add the cooled chocolate and mix until combined
- Spoon frosting into a piping bag and decorate cupcakes as desired