Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe that Melts In Your Mouth
Yellow cupcakes were my favorite thing ever for years. I think it has something to do with the fact that my mother hates chocolate. I know you could never imagine a single person hating chocolate but my mother is definitely in that camp.
Maybe hate is a somewhat strong word. She will eat it if there is a super small amount and it is completely covered in vanilla. Because I grew up like this, I couldn’t even imagine a chocolate cupcake taking a yellow cupcake’s place until this easy yet effective recipe made its way into my arsenal.
EASY CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE INGREDIENTS
This Easy Chocolate Cupcake recipe can all come together in one bowl which makes this so simple to create with few ingredients. Just a dump and mix method. These are the main ones you will need:
- Egg
- Buttermilk
- Oil
- Flour
- Sugar
- Cocoa Powder
- Baking Powder
- Salt
HOW TO MAKE MOIST CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES RECIPE
For this perfect chocolate cupcakes recipe to work, the cupcakes need to be extremely rich, moist, tender, fluffy and of course chocolatey. To achieve all of this, you would think that a recipe would have to be incredibly complicated but it doesn’t have to be at all.
The ingredients that provide the most moistness are the combination of the oil. buttermilk, and even the brown sugar (because of the molasses addition).
The oil replaces the butter in this recipe. Usually a lot of cake and cupcake batters require creaming of butter and sugar but because this is really a dump and mix method, you use the oil to create a moist and tender cupcake while eliminating the mixing process.
What if I told you that these perfect chocolate cupcakes could be made without a stand mixer or even hand mixer? What if I also told you that all of the ingredients could be dumped in one bowl minimizing clean up and additional work? You might think that this would somehow diminish flavor and this recipe’s perfection but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. In fact, this Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe IS the truth!
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They seriously turn out amazing every single time, and they are so easy that I had my kids in my baking workshop making them without blinking an eye. If you want perfect American Buttercream, check out my recipe for that as well. You will adore it.
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Perfect Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup hot water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake/muffin pan with cupcake liners.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together egg, buttermilk, oil and vanilla and set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, add flour, both sugars, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and whisk to combine.
- In batches, add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and whisk until smooth.
- Lastly, mix in hot water and whisk until combined and perfectly smooth. The batter should be somewhat thin.
- Add batter to cupcake liners filling only halfway and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.
- Allow cupcakes to cool to room temperature before adding buttercream.
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I love love these cupcakes. Everyone always ask for a second one before finishing one. That’s my only complaint
I guess it’s because they melt in your mouth.,
I had good results converting to Jumbo cupcakes. I would love to use a Bundt pan as well.
What a blessing to find your site
D Clark
PS – The Vanilla Cupcakes are great too
Hi can i use regular milk if i don’t have butter milk
You can make your own buttermilk using my substitutions here: https://grandbaby-cakes.com/baking-substitutions/
Amazing cupcakes! Wondering if this could be used as a cake recipe too? Or would the amounts be off?
I haven’t made this as a cake but I do have a wonderful chocolate cake recipe that I know you would also love.
Thank you for my birthday recipe thank you very much Roderick
These are soooo good! This will be my go to chocolate cupcake recipe. I did add espresso powder to the hot water. Thanks for sharing your recipes!
This is my go-to for chocolate cupcakes…SO easy to make, moist & delicious every single time. Thanks, Jocelyn!!
These were easy and delicious! A big hit with everyone!
I just made these cupcakes. They are so moist and delicious. I definitely will be making them several times over. Thank you. 🙂
I have made these chocolate cupcakes several times and they are a winner!! They are very moist and flavorful. I put a teaspoon of expresso powder in the hot water and the flavor is very pleasing. Thank you for sharing your recipes, I am always pleased with the outcome!
Wow! Amazing cupcake recipe! They turned out to be perfect! So much flavour and super moist! I’ve already shared the recipe with my friends!! Thanks so much this super easy and delicious recipe!
Hi! Will this recipe be ok if I times it by 4? Making 64 cupcakes?
I haven’t tested making that many cupcakes with this recipe so I would just try maybe multiplying by 2 first and seeing if that works since the ratios can sometimes change when going up on recipes. For instance, you would need to change leavening ratios.