Chocolate Cupcakes made fantastic!

Have you been searching for the perfect recipe for chocolate cupcakes? Well, here it is!

It really is quite easy, they came out fabulous, moist and flavorful. I found the original recipe at Cupcake Project. Of course, I had to make a few substitutions that fit our particular dietary wants. We try to add wholesome and real ingredients, things that are not as processed and always organic!

Ingredients 

1/4 cup  unsalted organic butter at room temperature (I prefer raw homemade butter)

1 cup organic sucanat

sucanat

sucanat

2 ounces of your organic favorite chocolate bar (I perfer the Green and Black 70% Organic Chocolate Bar)

2 large eggs at room temperature (organic, grassfed)

2 large egg yolks at room temperature (organic, grassfed)

1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon coconut oil (organic, pure, cold pressed; I get mine at Costco)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract (Homemade Organic Recipe)

1/3 cup organic yogurt

1 cup whole wheat all-purpose flour (until I find the right recipe for freshly milled all-purpose flour, I use 1/2 cup of organic whole wheat flour from the store and 1/2 cup of fresh milled organic soft white wheat flour).

1/2 teaspoon sea salt (Grey Celtic Sea Salt or Makia Celtic Sea Salt)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon of  ceylon cinnamon 

1/2 cup organic cocoa powder or better yet raw cacao powder

1/2 cup of room temperature organic brewed coffee (I use what I have from the morning)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Mix the butter and sugar together for about 1 minute, it should look like wet sand.
3. Grate the chocolate bar.
4. Add the chocolate bar into the butter/sugar mixture for about 2 minutes.
5. Mix in eggs and egg yolks.
6. Mix in oil, vanilla, and yogurt.
7. Mix together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and cocoa powder into a separate medium-sized bowl. 
8. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in slowly, mixing until just combined after each addition.
9. Mix in coffee.
10. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full and put in the oven at 350 F for 5 minutes then turn down the oven to 325 F for 15 minutes. 
11. Check to be sure they are done with a toothpick. It should come out clean.
12. Immediately remove cupcakes from the cupcake tin and place on a cooling rack. They will be very soft, so be gentle with them. They are still done, just make note it is normal for them to be soft! 

Once they are cool, then add frosting or simply enjoy! 

 I have an amazing homemade frosting that we call toostie roll frosting. It has a familiar taste of a toostie roll as well as texture.