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Chocolate Blackout Cupcakes Recipe

Chocolate Blackout Cupcakes

Homemakers Best Tested
By
Andrew Chase
Photography by
Jennifer Melo
Even though they're reduced in both fat and sugar, these sophisticated cupcakes will satisfy anybody's sweet cravings – and they look as good as they taste.

Ingredients

1 cup  and 2 tbsp (250 mL and 30 mL) all-purpose flour
1/2 cup  less 1 tbsp (110 mL) cocoa powder
1 tsp  (5 mL)  baking soda
3/4 tsp  (4 mL)  baking powder
3/4 cups  (175 mL)  buttermilk
1/2 cup  (125 mL)  strong room-temperature coffee
1/2 cup  (125 mL)  packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup  (75 mL)  canola oil
1/3 cup  (75 mL)  dried tart cherries, halved
3 oz  (90 g)  bittersweet (70%) chocolate, melted

Preparation

In bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa, and baking soda and powder.

In separate bowl, stir buttermilk with coffee. In large bowl, beat together sugar, egg and oil until smooth and light, about 2 minutes; stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, making 3 additions of flour mixture and two of buttermilk mixture. Stir in cherries and two-thirds of the chocolate.

Into each of 12 lined or lightly oiled muffin cups, spoon 1/4 cup/60 mL of the batter. Bake in centre of 350/180C oven until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 20 minutes.

Let cool completely on rack; remove from tins and drizzle remaining chocolate over tops.

Makes 12 cupcakes.

Chocolate Blackout Cupcakes
Cooking Time
20 Minutes
Serving(s)
12 cupcakes
Nutritional Information
Per cupcake: about
Calories 207
Protein 4 g
Fat (total) 10 g
Sat. Fat 3 g
Carbohydrate 27 g
Fibre 2 g
Cholesterol 17 mg
Sodium 148 mg
Calcium 5 % RDI
Iron 11 % RDI
Vitamin A 2 % RDI
Folate 13 % RDI

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Source

Homemakers Magazine: May 2008

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