How to Bake Mini Chocolate Cupcakes

Mini chocolate cupcakes or muffins are super fun and easy to make. Kids love this easy chocolate dessert, just pop in your mouth. Once you get the hang of these you can try our mini banana muffins and more!

Mini Chocolate Cupcakes

We shared recently how long to bake mini cupcakes, that was just the beginning to all of our experimenting. These can cross the line between dessert and breakfast but you can use your favorite flavors to make these pop in your mouth copycat little bites muffins.

Use the same recipe for “regular” sizes at 18 minutes or make jumbo Costco chocolate muffins that look like the store bought versions you love so much. The flavor doesn’t change just because they’re different sizes but sometimes fun means they are tastier somehow. 😉

Mini Chocolate Muffins

Of course you could use boxed or this is how to make cake mix on your own. You can add chocolate chips and call it a day. Homemade chocolate mini cupcakes / muffins are always better though and pretty simple overall. Ok let’s talk about the difference between the two….

The two words are kinda’ synonymous though, you can use whatever you want. This one crosses over the barrier of both. You don’t have to add frosting at all if you don’t want. They are fabulous just as is right out of the muffin pan if you ask me.

How to Make Mini Cupcakes

There isn’t a huge difference between baking these and our mini pumpkin muffins, other than the ingredients are different. Once you have the batter all prepared you will either line the holes with paper liners or spray with non stick spray. The timing and temperature will remain the same.

• In a large bowl you’re going to mix the sugar and room temperature butter together.  Add eggs and mix again.
• Inside another bowl you’re going to mix together the dry ingredients; flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well. 
• Combine the two, it will be crumbly at this point. Add the wet ingredients of vanilla and milk to the batter.
  • Mix until the batter is light and fluffy.
• Prepare mini cupcake tins with mini cupcake liners. Spoon approximately 1 ½ tsp of muffin batter into each liner. 
• For more chocolate flavor you can put 2-3 chips on the very top and gently press in.

Bake inside a preheated oven at 350 degrees F. for approximately 11-12 minutes bake time. I remove when I touch in the center and it bounces back and/ or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before putting a dollop of chocolate buttercream on top.

Cupcakes in Mini Muffin Tin

If you need to make dairy free chocolate cupcakes that is easy to do also. I have to do this for my husband and just use almond milk instead, and a vegan plant based olive oil butter product. Literally tastes the same, we’ve done it.

• All purpose flour – make sure you measure flour properly with a measuring cup and spoon (no scooping) or they will be dense
• 3/4 c cocoa powder
• Baking powder and salt
• Some baking soda
• Butter softened, or plant based product
• White granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• Vanilla extract
• 1 c milk 2% or whole is best

This is a homemade mini chocolate cupcakes recipe of course. If you just wanted to use a box of cake mix with the ingredients needed at the back you could do so as well. You would make as directed on the box and then follow our baking time and temp below.

How do you frost cupcakes for beginners

Ok so I love sweets but I am not a fancy baker by any means. Meaning it is fun to create sweets with my girls but I am not going to buy extra things and take a bunch of extra time to make them uber pretty. We just want to dive in and enjoy them and it doesn’t need to look perfect.

SO the easiest way we have frosted cupcakes for years is the cheapest. Just use a pint size freezer bag and spoon y’all. Seriously, it works amazing. I don’t make homemade, I buy a tub of frosting too. Don’t anyone have time for all of that other stuff. What you do is just;

1. Spoon frosting into the baggie
2. Zip shut sucking all the air out
3. Use hands to maneuver contents to one corner
4. With scissors snip off the corner
   1. small snip will be tiny swirls
   2. large snip will create a thick swirl
5. Gently squeeze it out of the hole and swirl it around on top of each one like a swirly ice cream cone

And that is all you do!! Easy peasy and so pretty for your guests or just your family. Easy clean up too, just throw it all alway when done, nothing to clean!!