Everyone and their mother has been baking and decorating these little Cookie Monster cupcakes, which I’m sure you’ve seen on one of the many social network platforms throughout the web. I think I first saw these two years ago on Tumblr, but who are we kidding? These have been baked to death, but they’re still effing adorable!
A friend of mine recently put in an order for several Cookie Monster cupcakes, in chocolate chip flavour. I’m going to share the cupcake recipe, though I wish I’d taken better pictures. The cupcakes themselves were amazing, fresh out of the oven. Soft, fluffy, and tasted just like a chocolate chip cookie should.
I have to admit that I scoured the internet for a good choc chip cupcakes recipe, but was put off by the first few ones I found as they involved separating eggs. ARGH. I was being lazy… and after an extra hour of searching to no avail, I decided to go on with the Martha Stewart recipe. Here ya go:
Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
- 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 200g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 5 large egg whites, room temperature
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line your cupcake tins, set aside
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium sized bowl and set aside
- Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy, then continue beating while slowly pouring in the milk and vanilla
- Beat the flour in until just combined
- Then in a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form (I did this before anything else then put the egg whites aside) and fold into the batter
- Fold in the chocolate chips
- Bake for 20 minutes, then remove and cool completely
Ellebug 