How to Make Chocolate Cupcakes

Have you ever needed a quick and easy recipe for a dessert or treat for a party or special event? This recipe makes 16 cupcakes and the 12 short steps included are going to help you get it done quickly while still having a delicious dessert!

- 1 1/3 Cups of Flour

- 1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda

- 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

- 3/4 Cup of Cocoa Powder

- 1/8 Teaspoon of Salt

- 3 Tablespoons of Butter (Softened)

- 1 1/2 Cups White Sugar

- 2 Eggs

- 3/4 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract

- 1 Cup of Milk

- A Measuring Cup, 2 Muffin Tins, 16 Cupcake/Muffin Liners, 2 Bowls, and Tablespoon and Teaspoon Amount Measurers

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F before you begin.

Take one of your bowls and mix together your baking powder, cocoa powder, salt, flour, and baking soda into it.

Once mixing your dry ingredients together, you can set that bowl to the side and grab your second bowl. You're going to take your remaining "wet" ingredients including your milk, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, and eggs and then mix them together into that second bowl. (You might want to use a beater or electric whisk for this instead of a spoon to mix it.)

After you're done mixing all of your wet ingredients together, you can get the first bowl with all of your dry ingredients in it and SLOWLY and NOT ALL AT ONCE pour the dry mixture into the second bowl with the wet ingredients while beating or whisking it together. PLEASE - Do not pour the entire dry mixture into the wet bowl all at once because when your start beating it together it will make the dry mix fly out of the bowl and all over you and your kitchen. Pour it in some at a time while beating slowly.

Get your 2 muffin tins and put the 16 muffin/cupcake liners in them.

Once you have lined your tins with the liner, you can pour the muffin mix into all 16 spaces. You can fill each one up with mix about 3/4 full.

Once you have filled each muffin liner in the tins and your oven is done preheating, you can carefully put both tins into the oven. Once the oven is closed, set a timer/let the mix bake for 15-17 minutes.

After the 15-17 minutes of baking, before fully taking the tins out of the oven, you can check to make sure the cupcakes are fully baked by sticking a toothpick or fork into the middle of one. If the toothpick or fork comes out with nothing on it, you can go ahead and pull the tins out of the oven. But if it comes out with wet mix on it, you can bake them for another minute or two and then check again until they're ready.

Once fully cooked and done, you can take your cupcake tins out of the oven and place them on top of your stove. Make sure to not take the cupcakes out immediately because they will be hot and if you try to decorate them right away, the icing will melt and be difficult to spread on. Let them cool in the tins before taking them out for at least 5-10 minutes. Don't forget to turn off your stove!!

Once letting them cool and taking them out of the tins, you can eat or leave your cupcakes how they are or you can decorate them. Your choice!

If you choose to decorate your cupcakes here are some ideas and what mine turned out looking like! I hope you now have a recipe for a sweet dessert that you can use on any occasion, and your cupcakes turn out as good as mine were!