Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp Nescafé
• 1 cup yogurt
• A pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp lemon juice with 1 tsp white vinegar (optional)

Buttercream

• 200 g butter
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 2 to 3 tbsp milk
• Food coloring, as you like

Method

1. Sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and Nescafé and set the dry ingredients aside.
2. Beat the eggs until thick, then add the sugar, oil, yogurt, vanilla and vinegar.
3. Add the dry ingredients gradually until combined and divide into cupcake tins greased with butter and flour.
4. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 15 minutes.
5. Buttercream: beat the butter, sugar and vanilla, adding the milk gradually until smooth. Pipe onto the cooled cupcakes.