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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