Allow Me to Digress

It has been more than a month now since I had one of the best cupcakes I’ve had lately - Cupcakes by Sonja’s overpriced yet really good "Melt-in-your-mouth" flourless chocolate cupcake. It’s 98 pesos for a small cupcake but undeniably good.  Inspired by this, I’ve looked for recipes of flourless chocolate cupcakes over the Internet and finally made some today.   

Here’s the result:

They don’t look as nice as Sonja’s, and of course don’t taste as good as well, but my sister said they’re good!  (After all, she helped me with those. :)  My cupcakes were like my very own miniature chocolate hills when fresh from the oven, and they shrank when cooled.   

I therefore conclude that almost a hundred bucks is a reasonable price for one of those mouth-watering melt-in-your-mouth flourless chocolate cupcakes, which I probably won’t be having again for a long long time.

But my cupcakes?  In my unbiased opinion, they’re priceless. They can’t be bought by money (because I’m not selling them, sorry

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As requested, here’s the recipe i got from the internet but I cannot find the link anymore.

Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes
14 tbsp butter (2 sticks minus 2 tbsp)
7 oz bittersweet / dark chocolate (65% or 70%) chopped
1 cup sugar
4 eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp cocoa powder

1) Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease a cupcake pan or set 12 foil molds on a baking sheet.
2) Melt butter and chocolate in a large bowl (in the microwave or in a pan with low heat), working in 30 second increments. When melted, stir in the sugar and let the mixture cool for a few minutes before whisking in the eggs one at a time.
3) Once all eggs have been incorporated, whisk in the cocoa powder and vanilla extract.
4) Pour batter evenly into prepared pans and bake for 10 minutes.  Turn off oven and let cakes sit inside for additional 10 minutes.  Remove pan to a wire cooling rack and cool completely.
5) Use spatula to gently turn out the cakes before serving.

Store any leftovers in an airtight container.

Makes 12.

Enjoy!

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