Oh man, do I have a treat for you today. These cupcakes, are.... heavenly. Now, I do say that being a coffee lover, because these are definitely "coffee cupcakes". There is coffee in the batter as well as the frosting. So if you don't like coffee so much, these probably won't be for you.
I also learned something new with these, about buttermilk. I, hate buttermilk. I never buy it and didn't want to go buy a half gallon just for this. So I did some research, and apparently 1/4 Tablespoon of lemon juice to 1 cup of milk creates a sufficient substitution with the same acidity as buttermilk ( so in this case I used 1/4 a tablespoon with 1/4 cup of milk instead of the buttermilk) It tasted normal and the batter behaved correctly so I would suggest this as a successful substitution.
Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1/4 cup of buttermilk
3 heaping T of cocoa
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of coffee
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of flour
1/4 tsp of salt
1 egg
1/2 tsp of vanilla
Bailey's Irish Cream Frosting
1 stick of butter
4 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup of Bailey's
1 tsp of vanilla
1 T of milk
2 T of coffee
Directions:
In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda into room temperature buttermilk.
In a saucepan melt butter and cocoa together at a low temperature.
When smooth, add coffee.
I thought the texture this made was really quite beautiful.
In a separate bowl, sift together sugar, flour and salt.
Add cocoa mixture and egg and mix at a low speed.
Add buttermilk mixture and and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
For Frosting:
Beat ingredients together until smooth.
Spread on cupcakes.
The texture of the frosting was a little more liquidy than I would have wanted, I could have added more powdered sugar to thicken it up but I ran out.
I just shredded some chocolate on top to make it a little prettier.
And there you go!
This was a fairly simple recipe that I and my guy, Jonathan (an even bigger coffee lover) really enjoyed.
I hope you do too!
Lyndsey
I found this recipe on this picture through Pinterest, there is no first source listed though.
