The cupcake Experiments...Do you ever find yourself making dozens of cupcakes over and over again. Well my mom and I did. Not for an event or occasion but because we couldn’t get them just right, to flat, to dry, to wet. Sometimes we do this because the recipe didn’t turn out like the picture in the magazine but this time was for taste. One of my favorite cooking memories was the quest with my mom to make the perfect cupcake recipe.
Cupcakes look so cute we knew that we just had to make them taste delicious. We spent hours in the hot kitchen altering recipes, testing different ingredients, pans, cook times. A few dozen cupcakes later we finally came up with a cupcake we loved! Chocolate Picnic Cupcakes they are moist, rich, double chocolatey goodness.
We sold our cupcakes at our farmers market stand. I had a great time learning from my mom how to make small adjustments to recipes to make them taste even better. The family didn’t complain to much about having to taste test cupcakes for a couple weeks.
Chocolate Picnic Cupcakes
By: Tracy & Alyssa
Makes 20-24 Cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
1 3/4 cup boiling water
1 cup old fashioned oatmeal ground into oat flour
(Put it in blender to to make into a course powder)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3-4) tablespoons cocoa
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 3/4 teaspoon salt
(I use Diamond Kosher Salt, if using regular salt reduce amount to 1 1/2 tsp)
1/3 cup chocolate chips (melted) 1/3 cup chopped
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Blend oatmeal into coarse oat flour, Pour boiling water over oatmeal in mixer bowl, whisk together, and let stand 10 minutes.
2. Using Paddle attachment add butter (it will melt into oatmeal), stir, add vanilla and sugars.
3. Add eggs and mix thoroughly but gently.
4. Gradually add flour and other dry ingredients.
5. Add 1/3 cup melted chocolate chips in batter.
6. Sprinkle chopped chocolate chips into batter and give one last gentle stir
Bake at 350 for 16-20 minutes.
Makes 20-24 Cupcakes (I fill the outside tins first and if I don't have enough leave middle empty)
Letting the oatmeal sit in boiling water makes the cupcakes extra moist.
Melted chocolate + chocolate chips gives an extra perfect chocolate flavor.
These cupcakes taste great with a variety of frosting. We did a super fluffy buttercream frosting and added additional flavors like Peanut Butter and Oreo.
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