Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2003

It turns out that the best cupcake recipe is also the easiest to make. And the richest chocolate frosting is even easier.

SERVES Makes 12 cupcakes

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes cooling and 45 minutes chilling

Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In search of a yellow cupcake recipe that would be good enough to satisfy the parents at a kids’ birthday party, we discovered that simply dumping flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and sour cream into a mixing bowl and mixing produced the desired...

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