While valentine's day marketing helped drive this association home (and still does), the relationship between love and chocolate there are many reasons and occasions to bake without flour, but the best reason for baking chocolate desserts without flour is that the chocolate really shines through.
Chef John's Red Velvet Cupcakes
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Recipe Summary Chef John's Red Velvet Cupcakes
Who doesn't love a nice red velvet cake in cupcake form? They're moist, not too sweet, and they've got a gorgeous color. Serve these spread with cream cheese frosting.Ingredients | Best Chocolate Dessert Recipes For Valentine's Day
1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 large eggs
¾ cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon red food coloring
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and baking powder together in a large mixing bowl until combined.
Place butter and sugar into the work bowl of a large stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Scrape down attachment and bowl. Add eggs into butter-sugar mixture, one at a time, mixing the first egg in thoroughly before adding the second. Scrape down sides of bowl as you work.
Beat buttermilk and vinegar into moist ingredients, followed by vanilla extract and red food coloring. Mix until color is even.
Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and gently whisk by hand until batter is smooth. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling them about 3/4 full.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let sit in the pan for 10 minutes; remove cupcakes from pan and cool completely on a cooling rack before frosting. Unwrap cupcakes before frosting.
I like to dust frosted cupcakes with a little bit of cocoa powder, just to make them look even cooler.
Info | Best Chocolate Dessert Recipes For Valentine's Day
prep:
20 mins
cook:
20 mins
additional:
20 mins
total:
1 hr
Servings:
12
Yield:
1 dozen cupcakes
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Best Chocolate Dessert Recipes For Valentine's Day : Chocolate is classic, but anything sweet is a sweet gesture for that special this year, valentine's day is on a friday (and galentine's on thursday), so the trick will be finding a dessert you can make beforehand without.
