Quick and Easy One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Quick and Easy One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes are soft moist and delicious. They are a great treat for a simple evening snack, kids play date treat or decorated beautifully for a party celebration. These also make a great project for kids activities.
One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
The Quick and Easy
Well, I love spending hours in the kitchen slaving over recipes..! heck no!!
Don’t get me wrong. I love elaborate recipes and I know what it means doing that little extra and taking that recipe to a whole new level. But as a working mom whose kids have friends over all the time. I need to have a few recipes I can whip without going all that extra mile. Know what I mean?
When I need cupcakes quick and easy? I make these Quick and Easy One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes or One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes. Never fails me, always moist and delicious.
One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
The Secret to Success!
What is the secret to one bowl cupcakes; be it vanilla or chocolate?
- The temperature of your ingredients. Yes! You want all the ingredients to be room temperature.
- If your butter is not room temperature, it will not cream well but lumpy. On the other hand it if it’s too soft (or melted) it will not cream well. Which means the batter will be more dense rather than lighter resulting in dense cupcakes.
- Eggs must be room temperature – cold eggs will chill the butter and eventually curdle the batter.
Now I know I’m showing you some decorated Cupcakes but this is what they look like when they come out of the oven. I have baked these in cupcake wrappers but you will often see I prefer to use baking cups to bake my cupcakes.
One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Frosting and Decorating
You can eat these without any frosting they are so moist, soft and delicious. My kids have outgrown frosting now so our favorite is either the warm pain cupcakes with no frosting or the Whipped Cream topped. But you can also frost these with any of the frosting recipes I have for you on this blog. And you know I have endless from dulce de leche to caramel. Just look under my Cupcake Recipes for the whole list but here are some quick and easy suggestions
- Cream cheese frosting I used on my Apple Blueberry Cupcakes
- Whipped Cream – I used on my Light and Fresh Strawberry Cream Cupcakes. (my absolute favorite)
- Whipped Cream buttercream – I used on my Pink Cherry Cupcakes
- Strawberry Buttercream – I used on my Strawberry Cupcakes
This is what they look like when they come out of the oven. These are baked in cupcake wrappers but I like using baking cups more often.
One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Recipe – One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes (Save/Pin for later)
Tools
- Mixer or Bowl – You can use your Kitchen-Aid/K-Mixor just a bowl
- Bowl
- Whisk/ Wooden Spoon & Spatula
- Cupcake Pan
- Cupcake Liners
- Cookie Scoop / Ice Cream Scoop
- Baking Tray
- Oven[/easyazon_link
Ingredients
- White sugar – 100 grams (1/2 cup)
- Unsalted butter – 113 grams ( 1 stick)
- All purpose flour – 110 grams
- Cocoa powder – 25 grams (2 tbsp)
- Eggs – 2 large
- Baking powder – 1/2 tsp
- Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Buttermilk – 60 ml (1/4 cup)
For the buttercream
- Unsalted butter – 60 grams (1/2 stick)
- Powdered sugar – 250 grams – (2 cups)
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Whipping cream – 250 ml (1 cup)
Method
Bake Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven 170 C/340 F.
- Place all ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix on medium speed until a smooth batter is obtained.
- Pour in cupcake cases.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until a skewer inserted in the center comes clean.
Prepare Buttercream
- Add whipping cream to a mixer bowl and whip using a whisk attachment.
- Once whipped – set aside.
- To the same mixer bowl add the butter, powdered sugar, and salt.
- continue to use the whisk attachment and mix until light and fluffy.
- Add the whipped cream back in the mixer bowl and combine the two.
- Put icing into the piping bag with star tip and pipe some pretty swirls.
One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes by Veena Azmanov
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One Bowl Quick Chocolate Cupcakes – Baking from Scratch Series
Quick and Easy One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 100 grams White sugar
- 113 grams Unsalted butter
- 110 grams All purpose flour
- 25 grams Cocoa powder
- 2 Eggs large
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 60 ml Buttermilk
For the buttercream
- 60 grams Unsalted butter
- 250 grams Powdered sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 250 ml Whipping cream
Instructions
- Bake Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven 170 C/340 F.
- Place all ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix on medium speed until a smooth batter is obtained.
- Pour in cupcake cases.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until a skewer inserted in the center comes clean.
- Prepare Buttercream
- Add whipping cream to a mixer bowl and whip using a whisk attachment.
- Once whipped – set aside.
- To the same mixer bowl add the butter, powdered sugar, and salt.
- Continue to use the whisk attachment and mix until light and fluffy.
- Add the whipped cream back in the mixer bowl and combine the two.
- Put icing into the piping bag with star tip and pipe some pretty swirls.
You can find more of my cupcake recipes here – Cupcake Recipes
I tried the recipe it came out well.cupcake was soft n moist…..Thanxx for the nice recipe
Thank you so much Aruna. So happy to hear that.
I like ur recipe so much. Turned out perfect. Soft and moist.
Thank you so much Manisha. So happy you had success with this recipe. Thanks for coming back to write this feedback.