Ina Garten’s Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes

Ina Garten’s Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes

Ina Garten’s Beatty’s chocolate cake recipe is the best cake recipe hands down.  Fans were thrilled when Ina recently shared how to make it into cupcakes.  The recipe is still the same but it helps to know how long to bake them for - And Ina suggests doubling the icing recipe.
The cake recipe is below.  Instead of preparing cake pans, you’ll want to prepare cupcake pan.  Bake for 25 to 30 minutes and allow to cool for 30 min.  And finally, double the frosting recipe.  
“Doubling the frosting recipe makes a little too much frosting,” Garten says, “but I’ve never found that to be a problem, have you??”
Beatty's Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
For the cake:
Butter, for greasing the pans
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon brand)
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
For the frosting:
6 ounces good semisweet chocolate (recommended: Callebaut)
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 extra-large egg yolk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon brand)
1 1/4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter two 8-inch x 2-inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined.
In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
Place 1 layer, flat side up, on a flat plate or cake pedestal. With a knife or offset spatula, spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top, rounded side up, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.

Chocolate Frosting:

Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until light yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and continue beating for 3 minutes.
Turn the mixer to low, gradually add the confectioners' sugar, then beat at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary, until smooth and creamy. Dissolve the coffee powder in 2 teaspoons of the hottest tap water. On low speed, add the chocolate and coffee to the butter mixture and mix until blended. Don't whip! Spread immediately on the cooled cake.
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3 comments

This is the best chocolate cake recipe period. I make this for every occasion and everyone raves about it. Can’t wait to try the cupcakes, but no one will be able to eat just one.

Ellen

1 cup of coffee ruined the batter!!!!! Its too much. Ina Garten would call for 2Tbl!
Very disappointed in your recipe!!!

Bee

I made this recipe twice and both times it sunk in the middle. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, I measure everything exact, not a fan.

Christine

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