Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Filling

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

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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