Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

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Prep time: About 10 minutes
Cooking time: About 30 minutes

Makes: 12 cupcakes

    

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 c.     all purpose flour, sifted
• 1 c.           granulated sugar
• 4 T.           unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 t.           baking soda
• 1 c.           cool water
• 6 T.           mild olive oil
• 1 t.           fresh-squeezed lemon juice (or white vinegar)
• 1/2 t.         vanilla extract
• 1/2 t.         fresh-ground sea salt
• 36              chocolate chips

    

Directions -

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.
2. Put paper cups into 12-muffin tin.
3. Put into a mixing bowl the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking soda and mix until uniform.
4. Add in the water, olive oil, lemon juice and vanilla. Blend to remove all lumps.
5. Pour half of batter into bottoms of each cupcake baking cup. (Roughly 2 T. per cup)
6. Grind salt on top of batter in each cup and top with remaining batter.
7. Push three chocolate chips, point down, into tops of each cupcake.
8. Bake 30 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.

Based on a recipe from the Internet. Double the recipe to make a 9x13x2 inch cake.

 

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