Marble Cupcakes
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Recipe type: Baking
Cuisine: Cupcakes
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Serves: 16
 
Chocolate and vanilla batter is swirled together to make these delicious Marble Cupcakes.
Ingredients
  • 1¾ cups plain (cake) flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ⅓ cup milk
  • ⅓ cup thickened (heavy) cream
  • ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
  • 1 cup sugar (granulated)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ⅓ cup Dutch cocoa powder
  • ¼ cup boiling water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 175 deg C (370 deg F), Line muffin tins with cupcake liners.
  2. Sift together flour, and baking powder. Combine milk and cream.
  3. Using electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until well combined. Mix in vanilla. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with milk mixture. Beat until combined.
  4. Transfer one cup of batter to another bowl. Combine cocoa and boiling water. Stir into cup of batter.
  5. Fill baking cups with alternating spoonfuls of vanilla and chocolate batter, until ¾ full. Swirl the mixture with a skewer in a figure 8 motion to make swirls.
  6. Bake for 18-20 minutes until tops are golden and cupcake cooked.
Recipe by A Spoonful of Sugar at https://aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/marble-cupcakes/