These Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting are light, fluffy and topped with a yummy chocolate frosting. This cupcake recipe is easy to make!
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One of my favorite homemade treats would definitely be a yellow cupcake with chocolate frosting.
Many of the cake recipes from both of my grandmothers and their mothers use vegetable shortening. Grandma Rusin explained that many of the recipes that came from her family utilized shortening, because butter wasn’t readily available during the Great Depression. I will say, that you can certainly substitute butter instead of the vegetable shortening. But using vegetable shortening is exactly what makes these yellow cupcakes so super moist and fluffy.
Be sure and try my Chocolate Whoopie Pies, Orange Dreamsicle Cake, Marble Cake, and Lemon Pound Cake. For more cupcake recipes try Chocolate Cupcakes.
These cupcakes will do well if you sift the flour. Nothing fancy required, just a regular fine mesh, stainless steel strainer will do. This helps fluff the flour and make these cupcakes super light.
If you do not want to make cupcakes, you can certainly make a Bundt cake with this recipe. You’ll want to bake the cake for about 50-60 minutes.
For Valentine’s day, these yellow cupcakes would be so pretty sprinkled with little Wilton heart sprinkles. Sprinkle them on while the frosting is wet and they will stay put once the frosting sets up.
Also try Heart Sugar Cookies, Blackberry Pie, Raspberry Frosting, and Chocolate Layered Cake.
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Yellow Cupcakes
Ingredients
Yellow Cupcakes
- 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- 1 ¼ cups whole milk
- 3 large eggs room temperature
- 3 large egg yolks room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Chocolate Frosting
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter softened
- 3-4 tablespoons whole milk
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together granulated sugar and vegetable shortening. Add the vanilla extract, eggs and egg yolks, one at a time. Combine well. Scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula occasionally. Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
- Add the sifted flour and milk, alternating between the two. Mix for about 1 minute, scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, making sure everything is thoroughly combined. Line regular size cupcake pan with papers. Scoop evenly into 18 cupcake papers.
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 22-24 minutes or until a toothpick when inserted comes out clean. Let cupcakes cool completely.
- In a large bowl, using a hand mixer on slow speed, beat together powdered sugar, salt, unsweetened cocoa powder, softened butter and whole milk. Add a little more milk if needed. Whip on high speed until the frosting is smooth and the consistency you desire.
- Scoop the frosting into a pastry bag or a large zip-style bag, cut the tip off and pipe evenly onto the cupcakes.
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Suzanne says
These look delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Heather Barber McMechan says
The girls LOVE yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting. We make them during the weekends with sprinkles. Who doesn’t love a little sprinkles in their life 🙂
Princess quinn says
I love moist cupcakes. I gave it a try and it’s moist. Just one thing, I substituted butter over shortening to make it more flavorful. And it turned out fluffy.
Ada says
Yellow cupcakes are some of my favorite! I love it with the chocolate frosting because it’s a great balance between the chocolate and the cupcake.
Ally says
Yum do these cupcakes look good! I’ll have to pin this for the next time I need to do some baking!
Gen says
Wow, this is something new to bake. Saving the recipe for later. Thanks!
Sondra Barker says
Yellow cakes and chocolate frosting are fullproof!
Heather says
This is my favorite combination! YUM!!!! The cake looks very fluffy, just as it should be.
Dana Brillante-Peller says
yum! One of my favorite things to make with the kids with this simple, yet delicious, treat.
Sarah Bailey says
I totally want to be able to reach through the screen and grab one of these, they sound like they would taste amazing! YUM!
Angela Ricardo Bethea says
Who can say no to desserts? Especially a chocolate frosted cupcake. That looks amazing and easy to make too. Thanks for the recipe, I’d love to make as a snack during breaks.
Natalie says
Well, now I’m drooling haha! I haven’t had a cupcakes in years! Need to remedy that!
Nina says
This is so simple yet delish and yummy looking cupcakes, I love the fluffiness of the chocolate frosting
Anosa says
These cupcakes have my mouth watering – I do love a cupcake now and again. That frosting looks absolutely delectable.
Jessica Joachim says
These cupcakes look so good! I am a sucker for a simple dessert, and yellow cake with chocolate icing is such a classic!