Turning these into chocolate cupcakes?

ridingcountry, Feb 19, 7:40am
Hey there - I have been trying to find a nice easy but yummy chocolate cupcake recipe so was just searching the old posts and found this - any ideas on how to convert it to chocolate? Just add in cocoa or melted baking chocolate? How much do you thinK? Looks like a good recipe so would like to try it... but in choccy! TIA :)

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125g unsalted butter, softened
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¾ cup (185mL) milk

icing
50g unsalted butter
2 cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons milk
Sprinkles or lollies (e.g. mini marshmallows or jaffas) to decorate

Preheat oven to 180°C. Place muffin papers in one 12-hole muffin tray or cupcake papers in two 12-hole cupcake trays. In an electric mixer, beat butter for 2 minutes until pale in colour and creamy. Add sugar one third at a time, beating well between each addition. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for about a minute between each addition. Add the vanilla essence and beat until combined.

Sift flour and baking powder and add half to butter mixture with half the milk, mix until well combined. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.

Fill cupcake papers ¾ full (an icecream scoop is perfect for this). Bake muffin size cupcakes for 20-25 minutes and small cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Transfer to wire racks and allow to cool completely.

Icing
Cream butter until pale and smooth. Add the milk and half the sifted icing sugar. Beat until well combined. Add the remaining icing sugar and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. The mixture should be a spreadable paste; if it is too dry add some more milk, if too wet add more icing sugar.

nik12, Feb 19, 7:51am
The edmonds recipe says to turn it into choc cupcakes, take out 2T Flour and add 2T cocoa - it looks quite similar to the above recipe, but only takes 15 mins to cook :-)

ridingcountry, Feb 19, 7:54am
Oooooh ok never thought to check good old Edmonds!! Cheers!