These sour cream chocolate cupcakes are moist and delicious. Made from scratch with a rich buttercream chocolate frosting you'll love.
Can you ever have too much chocolate? I noticed that all the cake mix and brownie boxes were sold out at the store. Though they are convenient and you'll find several recipes on this blog that uses box mixes, creating the same thing from scratch is pretty easy.
The one thing that I strive for is something that's rich and moist. This is where the sour cream comes in. It adds a nice creaminess to the cake.
My first experience with this came from making Texas Sheet Cake as a kid. As I write this I realize I haven't made it for the blog. Maybe that's because it's one of those standards everyone knows how to make.
Still, I'm wondering if there are some people out there that have not made this bake sale regular, so maybe I will share the recipe in the future.
The frosting is my standard buttercream frosting that is comprised of powder sugar, butter, milk, and vanilla. This one has a bit of cocoa powder added in for more chocolatey goodness.
You could mix it up and using my Chocolate Ganache Frosting recipe instead.
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So, if you are a baker, you probably have all of these ingredients in your pantry and can make these yummy sour cream chocolate cupcakes at any time.
After all, chocolate is wonderful all the time, right?
Sour Cream Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
Chocolate Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in one bowl.
- In another bowl cream butter and sugar.
- Add sour cream, egg, water, and vanilla. Mix well.
- Add flour mixture to butter and sugar mixture and mix well.
- Fill lined cupcake holders 1/2 full.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean after inserting into the center of a cupcake.
- Set on a rack to cool.
- Meanwhile make the chocolate frosting by mixing butter, cocoa powder, and powdered sugar together. Add milk and mix well. Add more milk if the frosting seems too thick.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although attempts have been made to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
Lori
Hi! There is only one cup of flour in your recipe? True?
Patti Estep
Yes, there is only 1 cup of flour.
Colleen
These are the yummiest chocolate cupcakes I've ever made, rich with chocolate flavor but light and moist too! And so simple to make! Thank you!
Patti Estep
So glad you liked them Colleen. Thanks for letting me know and have a great week.
sandi noel
I used plain non fat Greek yogurt for the sour cream and splenda instead of sugar hoping to make them a little "diet friendly" but then I added some coconut mmmm and of course the butter cream frosting didn't help, I thought they were a little dry, but not bad. But very yummy. would make them again
Patti Estep
Thanks for sharing your ideas and experience Sandi!
Carole West
Good Morning Patti,
Never enough chocolate but I'm learning to scale back. I've finally made the complete crossover from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. So when I have those cravings for something sweet, yes chocolate is my friend... Cupcakes would be my second friend, they're so quick to make and tasty. A little treat once in awhile is good for the soul. Thanks for the recipe...
Also, glad to hear your state is starting to open up and looking forward to seeing those future projects. Hugs- Carole
Patti Estep
Thanks Carole. You could try using dark chocolate in this recipe. I bet it would be delicious.
Deb
Hello,
I am looking at your recipe for sour cream cupcakes and wonder...there is no sour cream in the cupcakes?
Patti Estep
Deb, Yes there is sour cream in the recipe but somehow I missed typing it in. LOL Thank you so much for pointing out this error. The recipe has now been updated.