Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Filling

Name: Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Filling
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 2 ounces (57 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine (see note); 1/4 cup, heavy cream; 1 tablespoon, confectioners' sugar; 3 ounces (85 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine (see note); 1/3 cup (1 ounces; 28 grams), Dutch-processed cocoa; 3/4 cup, hot coffee; 3/4 cup (4 1/8 ounces; 117 grams), bread flour; 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces; 149 grams), granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 6 tablespoons, vegetable oil; 2 large, eggs; 2 teaspoons, white vinegar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 recipe, Frosting for Creamy Chocolate Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Make Ahead

Cakes

There’s only so much chocolate you can cram into a cupcake before the texture literally falls apart. To get our fill, we had to think beyond the batter.

SERVESMakes 12 cupcakes

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes chilling and 1 hour 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a chocolate cupcake recipe with a moist crumb and just enough creamy frosting, we tweaked a chocolate cake recipe until it was perfectly portable, then worked in more chocolate without disrupting the cupcakes’ structure. We mixed cocoa ...

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