Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Name: Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces; 2 ounces (57 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 1/2 cup, Dutch-processed cocoa (1 1/2 ounces/43 grams); 3/4 cup, unbleached all-purpose flour (3 3/4 ounces/106 grams); 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon, baking powder; 2 , large eggs; 3/4 cup, sugar (5 1/4 ounces/149 grams); 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, sour cream (4 ounces/113 grams); 1/2 teaspoon, table salt

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Cakes

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

Why settle for faint flavor from a mix when homemade cupcakes are not much more work?

SERVES Makes 12 cupcakes

TIME 1 hour, plus 30 minutes cooling

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