chocolate cupcake recipe
Ingredients
- 1 + ½ cup all purpose flour/maida
- ½ cup oil
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp white vinegar(plain)
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- a pinch of salt
- ½ cup icing sugar adjust to your taste
- ½ tsp baking soda
- few drops vanilla essence [3-4 drops]
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for at least 10 minutes.
- Line muffin trays with cupcake liners. Alternately you can lightly spray it using non-stick cooking oil spray. and keep it aside.
- Take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt) in a bowl. Mix very well using wire whisk. If your cocoa powder have too many lumps, please sift it.
- In another bowl, mix wet ingredients (Water, oil, vanilla extract).
- Add this wet ingredients to the flour mixture.
- Using wire whisk, beat it till everything is incorporated well. Do not over mix it.
- Now, add vinegar and mix.
- Fill the each muffin cup about 2/3 full with the batter.'
- If you don't have the cupcake tray then use a small glass bowl and place the cupcake liners inside as shown in image below.
- Bake into preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Check by inserting a toothpick in the center of the cake. If it comes out clean meaning cake is ready.
- Remove it from the oven, let them cool for 5-10 minutes in the pan itself. Then remove it to a wire rack to cool completely.
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