Simple Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
1 cup
flour
1 cup
sugar
⅓ cup
cocoa powder
¾ tsp.
baking soda
½ tsp.
baking powder
½ tsp.
kosher salt
1
egg
½ cup
freshly brewed coffee, cooled
½ cup
low-fat buttermilk
¼ cup
canola oil
1 tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
- Kowalski's Chocolate Buttercream Icing (from the Bakery Department), for frosting the cupcakes
- chocolate sprinkles, for decorating cupcakes (optional)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together first 6 ingredients (through salt).
- Add egg, coffee, buttermilk, oil and vanilla; thoroughly whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
- Line a cupcake pan with paper baking cups; fill cups barely half full (do not overfill). Bake in preheated 325° oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean (15-20 min.).
- Remove from oven; cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
- Frost with chocolate buttercream; sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles, if desired.
