BASIC: chocolate cupcakes

I've baked amazing cupcakes today! Although I didn't decorate them with frosting today, I've made them so many times before and they are definitely my favorite recipe for the chocolate cupcakes batter. The frosting is up to you, you can decorate it with whatever your little heart desires. I'm just gonna give you the BASE today.
Another recipe to my BASIC series.
(first one was this one, if you haven't checked it out yet, go!)

  CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

ingredients:

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(makes 12 muffins)

• 1/2 cup (50g) unsweetened cocoa
• 1 cup boiling hot water
• 1 1/3 cup (175g) all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder 
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup (113g) room temperature butter
• 1 cup light brown sugar (you can substitute with white, yet it, in my opinion, tastes better with brown)
• 2 large eggs
• a few drops of vanilla extract

What to do?

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1. Preheat oven to 190C and line muffin tins with paper liners.
2. In a small bowl stir until smooth water and cocoa.
3. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder & cocoa.
4. In a big bowl beat together butter with sugar with an electric mixer. When nice and fluffy start adding the eggs, one at a time, and beat that together Add vanilla extract.
5. Mix in (with a spatula) flour mixture. Then add the cocoa and stir it all just until incorporated. 
6. Fill muffin tins til about 2/3 and bake for 16-20 minutes .
7. Let them cool down and DECORATE.

And this oldie was my frosted basic chocolate cupcake ;)

The recipe is adapted from joyofbaking.com recipe :) 

Have a great week! 

xx Annie

BASIC : Vanilla Cupcakes

Hi, there! Like I said, I'm back in my baking shape, so as I've done vanilla cupcakes w/ chocolate frosting I thought I'd share this really basic recipe for pretty much "plain" cupcakes :) My favourite is from joyofbaking.com , ah thanks Stephanie Jaworski! You ALWAYS have those ingredients at home and whenever you feel like baking OR EATING cupcakes it's just great to have that tested recipe. Oh, there's an idea, I could do a series of just those super easy, BASIC, recipes, what you think about that?
Anyways, today vanilla cupcakes are on!  Soo there you go!

  VANILLA CUPCAKES  

Ingredients:

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1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup (130 grams) granulated white sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Zest of 1 large lemon (outer yellow skin)
1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup (60 ml) milk
( of course, you CAN skip lemon zest, but well, it's better with it!)

What to do?

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1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
2) In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

3) Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract!
4) In a separate bowl whisk together the lemon zest, flour, baking powder, and salt.

5) With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture and milk, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.

6) Evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter

7) Bake for 17-20 minutes, let it cool for a moment and ENJOY!

haha I've baked those a couple of times, and they are delicious every time, really! And here you've got the pictures from the last time :>
Soo now I see you running to your fridge and puttin everything out on the table. Soo good luck and see you next time! :)
xoxo

Annie