Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

Why settle for faint flavor from a mix when homemade cupcakes are not much more work?

SERVESMakes 12 cupcakes

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Cupcakes shouldn’t be complicated, but homemade versions can take a lot of time and store-bought mixes don’t deliver good chocolate flavor. We wanted the consummate chocolate cupcake—one with a rich, buttery flavor, a light, moist, cakey te...

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