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Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Make Chocolate Cupcakes Everyone Will Rave About


Searching for the best chocolate cupcake recipe? Look no further! You'll love eating these homemade cupcakes with their all-natural ingredients and farm-kitchen flavor. Mom made them to take on family picnics and to serve company on special occasions.

I can recall eating Mom's cupcakes decorated with thick chocolate icing at birthdays and at family wedding showers. When you're young, cupcakes are really special. It's like having a small chocolate cake all to yourself.





Chocolate Cupcake Recipes

These easy homemade cupcake recipes are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1920s.

Chocolate Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
2 cups pastry flour (or 1-3/4 cups bread flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate

Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add well-beaten egg yolks. Sift dry ingredients together and add, alternately with milk, to first mixture. Add vanilla and melted chocolate; fold in egg whites beaten stiff.

Put batter into greased muffin tins and bake in moderate oven at 375°F about 25 minutes. Eat as is or cover with rich chocolate frosting topped with a red cherry. Delicious!

Chocolate "Surprise" Cupcake Recipe

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 dozen large marshmallows (optional)

Cream together shortening and sugar. Add beaten eggs and mix well. Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Add melted chocolate and vanilla and beat thoroughly. Pour into greased cupcake tins. Bake in quick oven (425°F) 15 to 20 minutes.

To add the "surprise," take from oven, and while still hot remove a little of center from top of each cupcake and put a large marshmallow in hole to melt.

Put cupcakes aside for later and serve as is, or serve hot with whipped cream or ice cream, or serve cold with a suitable hot chocolate sauce. Makes 12 medium-sized cupcakes.





chocolate cupcake recipe book picture Pick either of the chocolate cupcake recipes and bake some scrumptious homemade treats to make your occasion extra special.




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