CHOCOLATE CHIP CUPCAKES RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Cream margarine, sugars, and vanilla; beat in egg.
• Sift and stir in flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Spoon into 12 well-greased or paper-lined muffin cups.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes; remove from oven.
• For topping: combine in small bowl salt, egg, and brown sugar.
• Stir in chocolate chips, nuts, and vanilla.
• Spoon over hot cupcakes.
• Return to oven and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Immediately remove from muffin pan and cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 325°F Insert liners into medium cupcakes pans.
• Prepare cupcakes. In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Place butter, sugar, vanilla and almond extracts in mixing bowl, beating on medium speed until mixture is light and airy.
• Reduce speed to low, add eggs one at a time, mixing well.
• Gradually add one third of the dry ingredients (prepared in Step 2), one third of the milk, and repeat 3 times. Mix until ingredients are incorporated and batter is smooth.
• Add chocolate chips to mixture and stir.
• Fill the cupcake liners two-thirds full.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until cupcakes are springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted in cupcake's center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Prepare frosting: in a bowl placed over a pot of hot water, melt chocolate and butter, mixing until texture is smooth.
• Add salt, condensed milk, and corn syrup, mix.
• Remove from heat and set aside tio cool. When frosting cools and sets, spread a heaping tablespoon on top of each cupcake.