Martha’s a Genius. But we already knew that. May 5, 2009
Posted by Dorothy in chocolate, cupcakes, vegan.trackback
Who loves Martha Stewart?!
I do! Most Dessert Obsessees I know have a love/hate relationship with Martha and her recipes, but I completely adore her! I believe anyone who can build a successful career and home empire, and then destroy said successful career (by lying and ending up in jail, in Martha’s case), and then rebuild that career and become even more successful after imprisonment and public humiliation is a Genius.
So of course, she came up with these Genius super easy one-bowl chocolate cake recipe! I can’t believe it took me so long to try this recipe, as dessert lovers everywhere have been raving about this recipe for awhile. I’ve been using this vegan recipe as my go-to chocolate cake recipe, but Martha’s are slightly better! (But the vegan ones are healthier!) And Martha’s cupcakes baked up gorgeously, with perfectly domed tops.
This recipe is supereasy and results in moist, chocolatey, cupcakes. Perfect! Top with some Cream Cheese Frosting or Cookies and Cream Frosting and you’re in cupcake heaven!
Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
Martha’s One – Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Sift together cocoa powder, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Add eggs, warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla, and mix until smooth, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl to assure batter is well mixed.
Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full. Bake until tops spring back when touched, about 20 minutes, rotating pan once if needed. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool completely and then frost. Makes 24 cupcakes.
Cream Chese Frosting
1 8 0z. package cream cheese
1/2 stick butter (1/4 cup)
2 c powdered sugar
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
Beat all the ingredients together until creamy. Add in 1/2 C crushed Oreos for Cookies and Cream frosting.
And did you know Martha was a teenage model?
Martha the Model
So she’s been a model, chef, tv personality, publisher, author, decorator, actress, homemaker, stock broker, went to college on a scholarship, etc etc etc and still going! She’s done everything! That woman is amazing. If one day I could be even a smidge as successful as her, I would be beyond satisfied with myself.
I remember seeing pics of Martha as a model and she looked amazing! I have had some issues with recipes not working out but I have to say that design wise she and her team come up with amazing things!
I love that cream cheese cookie and cream frosting – it looks SO good! What perfect cupcakes
i can see you as the next martha! except for that jail part…
never in a million years would i have guessed that was martha. wow.
anyhoo, great cupcakes, but for me, the very best part is that oh-so-creamy frosting.
I’m glad you tried these! There are one of my fave chocolate cuppies!
Mmm those cupcakes look tasty!
Girl I agree, Martha has her stuff together! These look totally decadent!!
I love Martha too! And by the looks of it, I would love these cupcakes. Cream cheese + oreo frosting mmmmmmmmm.
I’ll blog about these soon. I bake these at my son’s Fashion Show the other day. They are the best. I used to make the Chocolate Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take over the World. But no more. Martha’s recipe is better. I love those so much.
Wow, Martha was hot!
These cupcakes look killer. Geeeez. I want one.
I’m a huge Martha fan, I tivo her talk show so that I don’t miss any of her recipes. These look delicious.
I’m with you — I love Martha! =)
Your cupcakes look so tempting! I like the fact that they’re vegan too, I’m experimenting with alternative dessert recipes. Tasty frosting!
I’m not into Martha, but I love these cupcakes!
I like Martha too. I agree; anyone who can build an empire, go to jail and come back better and larger than life, is okay with me!
She actually has a good magazine called Body and Soul, have you read that one? It’s got mostly healthy tips/ideas/recipes in it.
Your cupcakes look amazing! My kids would love those!
Well, I’ve learned something- I had no clue Martha used to model! She really does do everything, huh? While I’ve never used her recipes, I’ve heard mostly good things about them, and I can certainly appreciate her sense of design and style.
I love the cookies and cream frosting! And who knew about the modeling? Hope all is well…
I can never have too many chocolate cupcake recipes! Yum!
Wow, love the modeling pic of Martha! She was a supermodel before there was such a thing.
haha, i love the heading here.
i am totally going to try cooking these up with the cream cheese frosting! and are you serious about martha being a model? i cant see the resemblence, but she still is elegant so I could see
i am no obsessed with your blog, im going to put you on my blogs favorite food blog list
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