Best Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

Name: Best Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 1/2 cup + 1/3 cup all purpose flour (I use GFJules (affiliate link)); 1/3 cup Hershey’s Cocoa; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 egg; 1/2 cup strong black coffee (I used decaf); 1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk (to sour milk: use 2 teaspoons white vinegar plus milk to equal 1/2 cup); 1/4 cup canola oil; 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 box confectioner sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla; ½ stick butter or dairy free butter (softened); 4½ tablespoons milk or dairy free milk; 6 Tablespoons butter or dairy free butter (softened); ¾ cup Hershey’s Cocoa; 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract; 2⅔ cups powdered sugar; 4 to 6 Tablespoons milk; 1 box confectioner sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; ½ stick butter or dairy free butter (softened); 1-2 tablespoons milk* (For a deeper strawberry flavor, skip or use less milk and more strawberry puree); 3 tablespoons strawberry puree (I mashed strawberries, then strained out the juice with a strainer)

Recipe based on our "Best Chocolate Cake", these gluten free cupakes are super chocolately and yummy! Plus, they are the easiest recipe ever! Top with your favorite buttercream frosting... chocolate, vanilla or strawnberry.

Chocolate cupcakes buttercream frosting gluten free #glutenfreerecipes www.healthygffamily.com

Soft & fluffy, chocolate-y and yummy!

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Who else loves cupcakes?

Just the best cake to frosting ratio, right?

Well, we’ve been slowly updating our recipes to include more cupcakes so that the website better represents our love of them lol…

We have Red Velvet Cupcakes, Carrot Cake Cupcakes, Classic Yellow Cake Cupcakes and it was about time we added some Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes!

These are based on The Best Chocolate Cake, a recipe from my Aunt that is a fan favorite in our extended family.

The cake is an old-fashioned, made-from-scratch cake that is moist and chocolatey and sooooo good! And it’s really EASY!

In fact, in full transparency… it is the same recipe, but I cut it in half and adjusted the baking time. Why mess with a really good thing?!

So let’s make it!

It’s made with all the usual goods —

all purpose gluten-free flour (we use with GF Jules -affiliate link )

sugar

egg

Hershey cocoa (100% cacao unsweetened)

baking powder

baking soda

salt

canola oil

vanilla

coffee (we used a dark roast decaf)

buttermilk (we made some!) for extra flavor and moistness.

As an aside, you may have noticed that we are affiliate for GFJules. To learn more about why we love GFJules flour and why we have used it for 10 years, click here.

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And importantly, purchasing through an affiliate link does not change your cost at all. It generates a small percentage of the sale for me, and purchasing through an affiliate link helps me fund this website and all the recipes I share, so thank you!

Back to the Chocolate Cupcakes….

It is the easiest recipe ever!

All you do it mix the dry ingredients together, add in the wet ingredients and that’s it!

Pour or spoon into lined muffin tins and bake!

So chocolatey and yummy!

And some in my house have been known to eat them as is…

But… the rest of us love frosting!

I give options for 3 different buttercream frostings:

chocolate (the most amazing chocolate frosting ecipe from my aunt!)
vanilla (the best recipe from my mom!) and
strawberry (based on the vanilla but made with strawberry puree).

One is better than the next, so can’t wait for you to try them all!

They are all made with a combination of:

confectioner’s sugar (also known as powdered sugar)

butter or dairy-free butter

vanilla

milk or dairy free milk

plus cocoa for the chocolate and strawberries for the strawberry.

Frost them and enjoy as is or top with sprinkles or decorate for a holiday.

For Easter, it would be super fun to top with jelly beans if you have any.

Which would you chose?

They taste every bit as good as they look!

Chocolatey, moist, soft and fluffy texture and yummy!

Want one?

Hope you love them as much as we do!

For The Best Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, click here.

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