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Chocolate Buttermilk Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 12 paper cupcake liners
• 1 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup buttermilk, low-fat
• plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk, low-fat
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate

Directions:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
• 2. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Add the sugar, buttermilk, oil and vanilla and stir to combine (do not overmix).
• 3. Fill each baking cup 2/3 full. Bake until a skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Allow the cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the pan.
• 4. When the cupcakes are cool, melt the chocolate over a double boiler. Let the chocolate cool until it thickens slightly. Using a spoon, drizzle the cupcakes with the melted chocolate.
• Makes 12 standard size cupcakes or 24 miniture cupcakes.