Brownie Cupcakes Recipe

Super fudgy Brownie Cupcakes with crinkly and chewy tops. Frosted with creamy, silky dark chocolate buttercream. Very easy to make.

These Brownie Cupcakes are mindblowing!

We all love brownies, right? I see that my Homemade Brownies, Peanut Butter Brownies, and also the Brownie Cookies are always among the top posts. So, you scream, and I scream for ice cream, ah, no, I meant brownies. Woohoo!

Now imagine super fudgy brownies in a shape of cupcakes with crinkly and chewy tops and frosted with ultra creamy and silky dark chocolate buttercream. If this isn’t mindblowing, I don’t know what it is.

I think you already know that you are in a chocolate-lovers zone on my blog. Chocolate is one of my weak points. But brownies?

Brownies are for me chocolate with a better configuration. Let me explain. It’s like a car. The car you want to buy is great, but you can configure it to bring it to the next level. So the chocolate is the car, and with a mindblowing configuration, you get these super fudgy Brownie Cupcakes. Does that make sense?

What’s about this Brownie Cupcakes recipe?

• they are super fudgy
• intense chocolate flavor
• 1 cup of cocoa in the batter!
• super creamy and silky dark chocolate buttercream frosting
• Chocolate brownies topped with even more chocolate? C’mon!

Brownie Cupcakes with butter or oil?

There are different theories about the better moisturizer in brownies. Is it butter or oil? Both butter and oil brownies have their raving fans.

In general, oil leads to fudgier and denser texture in baking goods compared to butter. On the other hand, butter adds a deep, buttery taste to baking goods.

In vanilla cakes, I tend to add half oil and half butter to get the best of both worlds.

My brownie recipes always contain butter instead of oil. Trust me you don’t miss anything from adding butter instead of oil. The texture of my brownie recipes is super, super, super fudgy! Due to a lot of recipe testing, I perfected my brownie recipes over the years.

So we don’t have any disadvantages of adding butter but have the big advantage of the great taste. Butter gives the brownies a deeper and richer flavor and complements the chocolate just perfectly.

I know I talk the whole time about brownies instead of Brownie Cupcakes. But guess what? These ARE brownies. Just baked in cupcake liners.

I tried different versions of Brownie Cupcakes. My first attempt was more like a regular chocolate cupcake recipe. But they weren’t fudgy at all. Finally, I ended up with trying to bake my Homemade Brownies recipe in cupcake liners and boom. This was it.

I did just two little tweaks.

#1 I left out the chopped chocolate in the brownie batter because we have an irresistible chocolate frosting crown on top of the cupcakes, right? But feel free to add chopped chocolate or chocolate chips to the batter if you want to.

#2 I used just white sugar instead of brown and white sugar.

Brownie Cupcakes with cocoa or chocolate?

Well, that’s the next million dollar question, isn’t it? You will find recipes with melted dark chocolate, with cocoa, or a combination of both.

This is more of a personal preference. It depends on how you want your brownies to be. Cakey, chewy, or fudgy? Of course, not just the chocolate is responsible for these textures, but it is one part of the whole game.

Adding cocoa powder is my personal favorite. It provides the brownies a rich and deep chocolate flavor compared to adding melted chocolate. Adding chocolate instead of cocoa would require to add a lot of chocolate to reach the same intense chocolate flavor.

When choosing cocoa instead of chocolate you need to add more butter. So brownie recipes with melted chocolate usually contain less butter than cocoa brownies.

And yes! There is a whole lot of butter in these Brownie Cupcakes. Butter adds great taste, you remember? So this is actually a good thing. Except for your bikini shape.

The key to super fudgy Brownie Cupcakes is to follow the instructions step by step. There are a few golden rules to follow.

If you overmix or overbake them, they would turn out cakey instead of fudgy.

Although a fudgy texture is the best, in my opinion, I wouldn’t completely freak out when I miss the timer and overbake them slightly. The taste is the same, right? So you would have super delicious but cakey instead of fudgy Brownie Cupcakes. …There is then an excuse to bake them immediately again, right?

Read here about my 11 crucial tips to get super fudgy brownies.

Let’s chat about the buttercream. Oh, my word. So delicious! It has a great chocolate taste and is so silky and creamy that it’s almost unbelievable.

The chocolate buttercream is very easy to make. It contains just 4 ingredients. Butter, powdered sugar, melted dark chocolate, and cocoa.

To get super creamy and fluffy chocolate buttercream, let butter come to room temperature. Then mix it until it is super creamy. Then add powdered sugar. Mix again until it’s creamy. Beat in chocolate and cocoa and mix until the buttercream is super fluffy.

You can pipe or spread the frosting on top of your cupcakes. It’s up to you.

If you make this Brownie Cupcakes recipe, leave a comment, rate it and tag a photo #alsothecrumbsplease on Instagram! Would love to see your snap!

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