It’s a recipe that my stepfather has been cooking for a long time. While residing in Mexico, he acquired it. The best results come from letting it sit for the entire night.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 18 cupcakes |
Ingredients
- ¾ cup shortening
- 1 ⅔ cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 12 cup muffin pans or line with 18 paper baking cups.
- In a medium bowl, beat the shortening and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in vanilla, instant coffee and cayenne pepper. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter, alternating with the water, just until blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter and frost as desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 220 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 21 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 180 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Too sweet for my taste. Like other reviewers I had to increase amount of butter to 6 tablespoons and decrease chocolate to 1/2 cup. Flilling it half way works perfect
It was ok but it came out really dense. More like a brownie to me. If selling this say brownie not a chocolate cupcake. Or put less cocoa powder.
So darn good came out delicious! thanks!
phenom! so moist.
I made changes-but mostly its technique. Use all butter & Cream butter till pale! Then add sugar. I used 1c white, after all creamed then add vanilla, then 1/2 c brown sugar Use Milk, not water- all dry ingredients, reduce flour to2 c. Increase chocolate powder to 1 c. Results in a very Light fluffy cake mix Mini cupcakes 14 minutes Full size cupcakes bake 350 for 20min. Cool completely before frosting.
It tasted great!
Very good! I used a double shot of espresso with my water and added small chocolate chips. Also doubled the cayenne. Topped em with vanilla frosting. Super yummy
I made this recipe tonight and must say that I am asolutely not a fan. I followed the instructions exactly without any alterations. The result was awful! They spread so much that I was rescuing my cupcake pan for 10 minutes and they were definitely inedible. Never again.
I cut this down for 12 cupcakes. I didn’t have instant coffee so I brewed really strong coffee and used 2/3 cup strong coffee and 1/3 cup milk, instead of water. Delicious!!
These were AMAZING! Made them for my co-workers and they couldn’t get enough of them. Made a couple of changes; used 1/2 margarine, 1/2 shortening and substituted 1/3 cup of white sugar with brown sugar. I used the chocolate icing recipe on the back of the Hershey cocoa box and was good to go!
THESE CUPCAKES WEREN’T VERY GOOD. THEY HAD A BLAND TASTE YOU COULDN’T TASTE THE CHOCOLATE AT ALL. I WOULDN’T MAKE THESE AGAIN, BUT IF SOMEONE IS MAKING THESE, I SUGGEST ADDING MORE COCOA. THIS RECIPE ALSO ONLY MADE ELEVEN CUPCAKES.
Fantastic flavor and texture. I was afraid they wouldn’t be a deep enough color (was making halloween spiders), so added a tablespoon of chocolate syrup to that last 1.5 cups of water (replacing fluid, not adding volume). Perfecto! Thanks for a great recipe!
Great for dairy free people moist with a little kick!
I used butter flavored shortening and they turned out WONDERFUL!! Some of the best chocolate cupcakes I’ve ever had!
This was not very good. Despite adding extra liquid they came out a bit on the dry side. Also very bland taste. A box mix would taste better and be less time consuming.
these are delicious!!!
These had a nice light flavor and were very moist. I would definately make them again. Thanks for sharing!
Nice recipe , used marg instead of shortening., and just 1 cup sugar
I made exactly the recipe as written, but for some reason the batter came out more like dough. I had to actually drop by spoonsful into the cupcake liners. They came out more like chocolate bread than cupcakes, and I wanted to glaze them, but I ended up with rough tops to my cupcakes. That being said, they are dense and delicious, and I ended up just frosting with a chocolate buttercream instead. They were a hit!
Great tasting cupcake! I made mini cupcakes using a piping bag to fill them. They took 18 minutes in the oven. I couldn’t taste the cayenne so next time I will add some more.
Very DRY!!!