How to Make the Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Filling | Let's Make Dessert
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Use a high quality bittersweet or semisweet chocolate for this recipe, such as one of the test kitchen's favorite baking chocolates, Callebaut Intense Dark Chocolate L-60-40NV or Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Bar. Though we highly recommend the ganache filling, you can omit it for a more traditional cupcake. The cupcakes can be made up to 24 hours in advance and stored unfrosted in an airtight container.
GATHER YOUR INGREDIENTS
Ganache Filling
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine (see note)
Ā¼ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
Chocolate Cupcakes
3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine (see note)
ā cup (1 ounce) Dutch-processed cocoa
Ā¾ cup hot coffee
Ā¾ cup (4 1/8 ounces) bread flour
Ā¾ cup (5 1/4 ounces) granulated sugar
Ā½ teaspoon table salt
Ā½ teaspoon baking soda
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 recipe Creamy Chocolate Frosting for Creamy Chocolate Frosting
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INSTRUCTIONS
FOR GANACHE FILLING: Place chocolate, cream, and confectionersā sugar in medium microwave-safe bowl. Heat in microwave on high power until mixture is warm to touch, 20 to 30 seconds. Whisk until smooth; transfer bowl to refrigerator and let stand until just chilled, no longer than 30 minutes.
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FOR CUPCAKES: Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard-size muffin pan (cups have Ā½-cup capacity) with baking-cup liners. Place chocolate and cocoa in medium bowl. Pour hot coffee over mixture and whisk until smooth. Set in refrigerator to cool completely, about 20 minutes. Whisk flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda together in medium bowl; set aside.
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Whisk oil, eggs, vinegar, and vanilla into cooled chocolate-cocoa mixture until smooth. Add flour mixture and whisk until smooth.
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Divide batter evenly among muffin pan cups. Place one slightly rounded teaspoon ganache filling on top of each cupcake. Bake until cupcakes are set and just firm to touch, 17 to 19 minutes. Cool cupcakes in muffin pan on wire rack until cool enough to handle, about 10 minutes. Carefully lift each cupcake from muffin pan and set on wire rack. Cool to room temperature before frosting, about 1 hour.
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TO FROST: Mound 2 to 3 tablespoons frosting on center of each cupcake. Using small icing spatula or butter knife, spread frosting to edge of cupcake, leaving slight mound in center.
OK, I feel like this video is not up to the regular ATK quality. Using a rubber spatula with a measuring spoon looked awkward for the ganache, pouring from the wide Pyrex measuring cup, lopsided glass measuring cup for the double boiler, and twice as long as it needed to be. š³
Wait, did you do your coffee by weight? And where is your face? These anonymous videos are not my ATK. And you're baking; don't be silly about the word "moist".
I was really enthusiastic about this until the icing sugar became part of the ganache.
A good video and I appreciate ATK trying new formats. Personally not a huge fan of this format. Feels off brand for ATK, Cooks Country, or Cooks Illustrated. Are you guys starting a new brand / format? If so, this is a good first start. Not for me but there is probably a market for it.
Awesome recipe! Love this new series!
You can see the āATK versionā of this cupcake recipe in a video at the recipe page in the description. (That video is exactly half the length of this one.)
I'm not sure I like the format. Its YouTube-Y, but it's not ATK
Donāt be shy about your moistness, girl!
I enjoyed this format. Itās easy to follow along. I have made these cupcakes from the printed recipe, but seeing it done by a chef is very helpful. I think they were worth the time and effort. I took them to a gathering and they were a really big hit. I love chocolate and I love baking with it. I learn something from every ATK show or video.
We wish you had cut one open so we could see the crumb and gooey center.
I feel like cupcakes are SO much more work/fussier than a regular cake. The ganache could be spread between 2 layers & a simpler frosting spread over the whole cake.
Put a piping bag into the pyrex, and pour the batter into the bag, then put the pyrex away.
This format may be popular with the myriad of cooking channels out there, but ATK's content is consistently leaps and bounds better than most and shouldn't try to fit that mold.
We trust your test cooks, so why hide them?
We don't need soft-spoken voice-overs and gentle music. We need confident, well – spoken experts we have grown to trust.
Lose this format or ya lost me.
ATK – experts using top rated tools
Also ATK – Sorry we don't have a serrated knife. š¤
Where is ATK?? Not the viewing experience I want to see, especially for 16+ minutes
Great recipe
Great video but wish the commentator was more fun. Very serious monotone voice and every step had to be perfect, cleaning every drop here and there, makes me feel inadequate with how messy everything is when I bake, lol.
Wow, that dollop of 'frosting' gives a whole new meaning to the idiom 'icing on the cake'!
So can we pipe the frosting?
Can u make ice cream without crystals and also fried chicken
Something chocolate! They look delicious. Thanks for showing how to make them.
Fingers on a blackboard! When will these "professionals " stop scraping knife blades against the cutting board. ATK does that to dull knives for testing. This is why baker's scrapers are a must for serious kitchens
Good recipe!
Not a fan of this format personally
Amazing! When I start getting bread flour this will definitely be one of the first recipes I'll try. Can I use heirloom bread flour like Turkey Red or Red Fife flour for this recipe?
Bite like to see interior phrase
Induction cooktops are the best at holding a low temperature. No more double boilers!!!
Super chocolate cupcakes šš»
After making that lovely coffee/chocolate mixture, I'd be cracking my eggs into their own bowl first. A habit I picked up after an incident a few years ago. I've only had a bad egg that ONE time, but, man, I just know it would happen to me again right there! š
Iām so excited to make these, thank you for sharing this recipe and I love this new presentation!
For everyone complaining about not seeing inside the cupcake ā¦ they cut into the cupcake in the first 20 seconds of the video.
āa little bit of sugarā = 5.25 oz = 3/4 CUP oh cmon stop trying to kid yourself that this isnāt dessert
I hope they are not cost cuttingā¦ATK videos are known for human interaction. I hope this tik tok style voiceover video will not be the new normal.
Cupcakes look good but the vid was boring.
Love the canister set. š„°
Who gonna wash all them dishes? Way too much work for just icing. And her speech cadence is irritating
ATK's version of ASMR.
Irritating presentation
More of this style of content please!
im guessing the coffee flavor doesnt come through but the idea turns me off
Melting chocolate are you supposed 50% power
That burn looks like the ol' 'bending down and touching the top of a crazy hot oven with your forearm; while reaching in' burn.
Nice! Gotta try this