The Best Chocolate Sourdough Cupcakes
The Best Sourdough Cupcakes ever! The deep chocolate flavor, with the cream cheese butter cream frosting is so good! This cupcake is so moist and delicious!
Ingredients
Night Before (also pull out 1 cup of butter to soften)
- 2&1/3 cups Fresh Milled Flour 280g I mill soft white wheat for this
- 1/2 cup Olive Oil 110g Could sub avocado oil, coconut oil, or melted butter
- 1/2 cup Sourdough Starter 115g (at any stage)
- 1 cup Warm Black Tea 240g (could use coffee or water)
Next Day
- 2 eggs 100g
- 2 cups Sugar 400g
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsps Vanilla (I love to make mine from scratch)
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder 65g
- 1 cup whole milk 240g
- 2 tsp baking soda This should be sprinkled in last
Frosting
- 1 cup softened butter 227g (2 sticks)
- 8 oz softened cream cheese 227g (I love to make mine from scratch)
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt (if using unsalted butter)
- 4 cups Powdered sugar 480g adjust as needed
Instructions
THE NIGHT BEFORE
- Pull out 2 sticks of butter (1cup) to soften overnight
- Mix the flour, sourdough discard, olive oil, and tea in a bowl. Cover and allow to sit room temperature overnight up to 24 hours.
THE NEXT DAY
- Preheat your oven to 350F
- In a mixing bowl, mix together sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs, cocoa powder, and whole milk.
- Add your sourdough mixture into the sugar mixture. mix until incorporated.
- Sprinkle in the baking soda and mix in well
- Line your muffin tin, and add about 1/4 cup of batter to each one.
- Bake the cupcakes for 15-20 minutes, until a toothpick comes out without and batter pieces on it. Allow these to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan to a cooling rack.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting them.
MAKE THE FROSTING
- In your mixer, add your softened butter, and begin to whisk.
- Then add the softened cream cheese until they are well combined.
- Now, add your vanilla and salt.
- Slowly whisk, and add in your powdered sugar 1 cup at a time.
- Once all the powdered sugar is incorporated, turn the speed up to medium. It should become nice and fluffy.
- Place in a piping(or ziplock) bag and pipe to your desire on your cupcakes.
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Notes
If you do not have dietary restrictions, this can be mixed up the same day, and made without waiting. But, to get the full fermentation benefits of the sourdough, it should be fermented at least 8 hours.