Top birthday cupcake recipes of all time
Cupcakes recipes are a great way to get into your kitchen and create delicious surprises for your loved ones, be it birthday cupcakes or Christmas presents. This list looks at the top chocolate cupcake recipes of all time.
As a beginner, baking a big birthday cake can seem overwhelming and put you off the task for good. But it need not be so. Why not try your hand at baking mini cakes or – as they are better known - cupcakes? There are a ton of easy cupcake recipes that are delicious and only take a bit of your time.
The Backstory to Cupcake Recipes
Cupcakes seem like an obvious creation today, but ever wondered how they came about? Truth is, the history of these little cakes cooked in tiny molds goes back to the eighteenth century! It required the genius of the woman credited with being America's first cookbook writer, Amelia Simmons, to imagine this delicacy.
Simmons' 'cup cake' recipe was published in her 1796 cookbook, and not surprisingly it was very different from how we think of cupcakes today. Think of a mix of flour, butter and sugar with a glass of wine and a glass of rosewater. Ummm, yes that's what you would've got if you wanted a cupcake four hundred years ago!
A Birthday Cupcake for Every Birthday Boy and Girl
Cupcakes seem like an obvious creation today, but ever wondered how they came about? Truth is, the history of these little cakes cooked in tiny molds goes back to the eighteenth century! It required the genius of the woman credited with being America's first cookbook writer, Amelia Simmons, to imagine this delicacy.
Simmons' 'cup cake' recipe was published in her 1796 cookbook, and not surprisingly it was very different from how we think of cupcakes today. Think of a mix of flour, butter and sugar with a glass of wine and a glass of rosewater. Ummm, yes that's what you would've got if you wanted a cupcake four hundred years ago!
The classic cupcake: Chocolate Swirl Cupcakes
We all know that one person who refuses to touch anything sweet that is not chocolate. That one person who would pick chocolate over absolutely anything else. Want to give them the best birthday present ever? Make this cupcake and thank us later. With this classic chocolate cupcake recipe, you get soft, spongy chocolate cupcakes topped with the most indulgent ganache. All this in under an hour. The cake gets its moist decadence from the buttermilk and oil, while the brown sugar adds a layer of complexity to the sweetness. It is topped with swirls of chocolate cream.
