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Easy chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting

Published February 3, 2018 Last Modified October 15, 2019 By GreedyEats

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Easy chocolate cupcakes that are egg free and are so moist, light and chocolatey that this one is sure to be added to your ”chocolate family’‘ recipes! Also these are frosted with pipeable whipped strawberry cream frosting!!! 

Moist and chocolaty, decadent and easy chocolate cupcakes recipe with strawberry frosting

I have a confession to make! It’s been more than two months of blogging and I don’t have a single chocolate recipe on my blog. Oh dear chocolate and my readers (for the love of chocolate), please don’t be mad at me!

Here I am with one today. And I am back not with any mediocre chocolate recipes out there. Recipes that uses apf in abundance or that depend on eggs for their texture and binding. Nope! Nope! Nothing like that is happening here this fine morning!

Decadent and easy chocolate cupcakes recipe on greedyeats.com

Also did I tell you these are the most easy chocolate cupcakes you will ever make! You don’t need any special ingredients, not even a mixer. Just your two good old hands, a mixing bowl and a spatula. And you are all set.

How this most moist, light and easy chocolate cupcakes recipe was born!

Two days ago, thoughts in my chocolate obsessed brain- I desperately want a chocolate cupcake Neha!! A soft, moist, fluffy and a rich one. I don’t want it to be fudgy ( fudgy is for brownies!) or dense for heaven’s sake! Mind if you don’t add eggs in it today? What if the bake is a healthier version than the usuals.

Okay now stop it you silly brain of mine. Have you lost it! That’s being too ambitious for a single bake. Also the one that involves chocolate! Go away you crazy thoughts!!

Can you guess what might have happened next? Did I stop there? No I din’t. How could I! Everything aside where chocolate is involved. I just want best of the best recipes in my archives. So I flew to my kitchen and took some semolina out. Soaked it in some buttermilk and the rest is history my present and the future of my chocolate craving brain! ↓ ↓ ↓

Okay enough talking. Lets get to work!

Recipe Dissected!!!

I love my cupcakes light, moist and flavor rich by all means. To achieve this with semolina and no eggs wasn’t some child’s task. I had to try, test and re-test the recipe several times to get here. Some bakes were hard, sometimes the batter was too thin and the cupcakes ended up way to moist. Phewwww. But here I have it in the fourth try!

A perfect balance of liquids to semolina+cocoa powder for these lovely and rich, flat top cupcakes.


We will begin with soaking fine semolina in the butter milk with some salt so that all the graininess disappears. Just like this. ⇓

And did you know? 

You can make your own butter milk at home? In this recipe we will add 1 tbsp of flavorless vinegar to 2/3 cup of warm milk. And that’s your buttermilk substitute.

The mix shown above will be very thick. Don’t mix it too vigorously and let it rest for 15-20 mns. I know. That’s the hard bit. But remember no apf cupcakes? 😉 Then goes in oil, sugar, cocoa, leaveners, some vanilla.

We will add hot coffee in the last to finish off our batter. It will be a smooth, runny and flowy batter like some chocolate river. Worry not. It is going to yield super moist eggless cupcakes you will ever taste. Ever! Have a peek inside this bowl. ⇓


We will bake the cupcakes at a lower temperature comparatively, so that all the liquid batter does not ooze out of the liners.

Take care:

  • Do not fill your cupcakes more than 2/3 of the liners, else the batter will overflow while baking.
  • Don’t be tempted to open your oven at all here before these bake. Or the cupcakes will sink in the middle.
  • Let the cupcakes cool down a little bit inside the oven with door closed. This will prevent the cupcakes from sinking.

Just take care of all the DOs and DONTs. And you will be rewarded with beautiful cupcakes, I bet!

Texture of these fluffy and easy chocolate cupcakes

Take it from me you can not even know that these are healthy or not made with all purpose flour. Or even that these have no eggs in them! Just have a look here.

Soft, moist, decadent and easy chocolate cupcakes topped with easy strawberry frosting.

Can you see all those wonderful air pockets? Semolina did not make the cupcakes dense or hard. Infact it helped with that lift of these cupcakes.

Strawberry Frosting Time

Now you can have these cupcakes on their own. Shhh, I did not say this! But topping them with this frosting is a complete dessert meal. 😉 We will begin with a cup of whipping cream. Add some sugar to it and whip the cream till soft peak stage. Mix in some homemade strawberry jam or even market bought one. Chill it and frost. Strawberry heaven it is! I would strongly suggest you make homemade fresh strawberry jam for this frosting if you can spare sometime. It tastes the best.

Suggestion: Make the strawberry jam a day before. So that you aren’t rushed to make the frosting. Also your jam will have plenty of time to come to room temperature this way.

Caution: We need to use ONLY cooled jam here!

Just puree your strawberries and reduce them on a gas stove till it thickens to a jam like consistency. Cool it down and add to your cream. You will need about 5 tablespoons for this recipe. No need to strain the puree.

Easy strawberry cupcakes frosted with dreamy strawberry whipped cream frosting.

Looking for more bakes to frost this luxurious and shiny frosting on?

Try it on this lemon flavored cake here. Or how does the idea of orange strawberry cake sound to you? Yum!

Love Strawberry??? Try my ridiculously sized strawberry cookies next!

So are you ready to bake the most amazing and playfully easy chocolate cupcakes on earth?

Easy chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting

Easy chocolate cupcakes that are egg free and are so moist, light and chocolatey that this one is sure to be added to your ''chocolate family'' recipes! Also these are frosted with pipeable whipped strawberry cream frosting!!! 
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: International
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 24 minutes
Total Time: 49 minutes
Servings 12 Cupcakes
Calories: 304kcal
Author: Neha

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup + 2 Tbsp (186 Gms) Semolina (Fine) (see note 1)
  • 3/4 Cup (180 ml) Milk
  • 1 Tbsp Vinegar
  • 1/4 Cup (60 ml) Oil
  • 3/4 Cup (150 Gms) Powdered Sugar
  • 1/8 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 Cup (50 Gms) Cocoa powder (I used hershey's natural unsweetened)
  • 1 tsp Baking powder (Scant)
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda (Scant)
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 110 ml Water
  • 2 tsp Instant Coffee

Strawberry whipped cream frosting

  • 1 Cup Whipping Cream
  • 5 Tbsp Strawberry Jam
  • 4 Tbsp Sugar (confectioners)
  • Pink gel food color (as needed, optional)

Instructions

  • 1. Preheat your oven to 320 deg F and line a baking pan with liners. Set aside.
    2. Warm the milk and soak semolina in it. Add vinegar and salt. Mix lightly and keep aside for 15-20 minutes.
    3. Meanwhile sift cocoa, baking powder and baking soda together. After 20 minutes, add oil, powdered sugar and vanilla to the semolina batter and mix. If you find it tough to mix, you may add 1-2 tbsp of the measured 2/3 cup water. I usually am able to mix it without any water.
    4. Add sifted cocoa+baking powder+baking soda to the semolina batter and mix well. Add instant coffee to water and heat it. Mix this hot coffee solution to the batter. Mix well until smooth.
    5. Pour the batter into liners. Fill only 2/3 of the liners. No more please. Bake these for 24 minutes. And let them cool down in the oven only, doors closed!
    6. Take them out after 10 minutes. And allow to cool down further.
    7. For the frosting, pour cool whipping cream in cool bowl, add sugar and whip until soft peak stage.
    8. Slowly incorporate jam to the cream and food coloring(if adding). Mix just until combined.
    9. Keep the cream in fridge till ready to use, Frost as desired. 
    Storage-
    You may keep unfrosted cupcakes stored in an air tight container at room temperature. Or you may keep the frosted ones in fridge for upto 5 days.

Notes

  1. You can replace semolina with all purpose flour at ease. Results in super soft and moist cupcakes that you will bake again and again.
  2. Do not fill your cupcakes more than 2/3 of the liners, else the batter will overflow while baking.
  3. Don't be tempted to open your oven at all here before these bake. Or the cupcakes will sink in the middle.
  4. Let the cupcakes cool down a little bit inside the oven with door closed. This will prevent the cupcakes from sinking.

Nutrition

Calories: 304kcal
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Comments

  1. swapanali

    July 8, 2020 at 1:08 pm

    can I use actual buttermilk? I don’t have vinegar?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      July 8, 2020 at 8:09 pm

      Sure you can! Just skip milk and vinegar from the recipe and use buttermilk in equal amount, ie 3/4 cup + 1 Tbsp.

      Reply
  2. Anonymous

    February 21, 2019 at 5:27 am

    Hey you don’t mention the temperature to bake these lovely cupcakes. Can you please tell me the temperature?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      February 21, 2019 at 6:46 pm

      Hi! It is mentioned in the first step of instructions. 🙂 I bake them at 320 deg F. Enjoy!

      Reply
  3. Aarti

    May 11, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    This looks great! Cannot wait to try. In the ingredients section you mentioned 110 ml water. In the instructions you mentioned 1-2 table spoons of 2/3 cup water.

    Can you please specify how much water is needed total?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      May 12, 2018 at 12:20 pm

      Hi Aarti! If you read the whole recipe or right after where I mention using 1-2 tbsp of water out of the total 110 ml (only if you find the semolina batter thick), you will see that this recipe needs 110 ml of water in total. Hope this helps! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Salonee

    March 31, 2018 at 9:54 am

    5 stars
    Thanks for this lovely healthy yummy receipe. Initially i wasnt sure that sooji might actually give the same texture as apf. I followed all your instructions and the cupcakes turned out moist fluffy n well!!
    Again thanks alot.
    Do share lotz more such healty receipes:)

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      March 31, 2018 at 11:50 am

      So happy to hear this Salonee! I too was doubtful replacing all the all purpose flour with semolina. But these cupcakes won! Will sure do more such posts. Stay tuned.

      Reply
  5. Nithya

    March 28, 2018 at 8:47 am

    5 stars
    U have mentioned 150g as 3/4cup for sugar and 50g as 1/2cup for cocoa powder. I’m little bit confused. Can u explain me this?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      March 28, 2018 at 3:23 pm

      Hi Nithya! sugar is heavy by weight. So holds more weight in a cup. And cocoa being lighter than sugar, weighs very less comparatively. 🙂

      Reply
  6. D

    March 22, 2018 at 9:24 am

    Wow! It looks wonderful,Can I substitute semolina with wheat or WWF?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      March 22, 2018 at 9:27 am

      I’d suggest all purpose flour Deepika!

      Reply
  7. Annie

    March 14, 2018 at 6:53 pm

    can you share tin size and baking time to bake a cake and not cup cakes?

    Reply
    • GreedyEats

      March 14, 2018 at 8:12 pm

      You can bake this as cake in two 6 inches pans for 30-35 minutes at 350 deg F Annie!

      Reply
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