Recipe: Tasty Easy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Easy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes. These super moist chocolate cupcakes pack TONS of chocolate flavor in each cupcake wrapper! Made from simple everyday ingredients, this easy cupcake recipe will be your new favorite. For best results, use natural cocoa powder and buttermilk.

After posting my Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes earlier this week, I wanted something that wasn't a cupcake. You don't have to load your cupcake batter or frosting recipe with food coloring just to make Galaxy Cupcakes. Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, bake at home! You can have Easy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

1. It's 2 cups of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips.
2. You need 1/2 cup of Salted Butter.
3. You need 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
4. It's 1.5 cups of Milk.
5. Prepare 1.5 cups of All Purpose Flour.
6. Prepare 1.5 tsp of Baking Soda.
7. Prepare 4 of Eggs.
8. You need 1 package of Cheesecake Flavored Instant Pudding Mix.
9. You need 1 container of Your favorite frosting (the green in the pic is just colored butter cream for St. Patty's Day).

Here's what you'll need (Ingredients) : Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix (We can. Light, fluffy and moist, these easy chocolate cupcakes can be made from scratch in just one bowl, then ice them with a fudgy chocolate buttercream frosting. The Best EASY Chocolate Cupcakes are moist, have a tender crumb, are deeply chocolatey and made without an electric beater. However, you can use normal cocoa if you want.

Easy Dark Chocolate Cupcakes step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Melt chocolate chips and butter together.
3. Mix in vanilla, milk, flour, and baking soda.
4. Add eggs and whip.
5. Stir in pudding mix.
6. Pour batter into 24 cupcake liners (about 1/2 to 3/4 full).
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cupcakes are done when a toothpick comes out clean..
8. Allow cupcakes to cool completely and then frost as desired.

My chocolate cupcakes are moist and light, dome wonderfully, and have an amazing, strong chocolate taste. You can also make the recipe with milk or dark chocolate - the cupcakes come out incredible either way. These chocolate cupcakes are easy enough to make that a total beginner. An easy recipe for rich dark chocolate cupcakes topped with fudgy dark chocolate frosting. Too much cocoa powder in either the cupcakes or the frosting will make them taste dry and bitter, instead of rich and dark chocolaty.