When its chocolate, its got to be indulging right ? And when its triple chocolate, its sinful indulgence.. That's exactly what happened when I baked these delicious & super yummy Triple Chocolate Cupcakes for Gourmet Seven - the Foodies Trail.
Remember we promised you some indulgence for Valentine right?? Here they are. Adapted from here, I made my own variations to the same - used Wholewheat instead of Maida, skipped the frosting & Orange (my family doesn't like either in cupcakes,and used three kinds of chocolate, including my personal favourite - Godiva Chocolate bar ! )... Now, that's what I would call....yummmmmm 🙂
And what an indulgence it was 🙂 I am not a chocolate person myself, but I did a little jig as I bit into the cupcakes. They were dense compared to the muffins that I generally bake as it was wholewheat and also flaxseeds. Read on for a sinful recipeJ
This goes to Gourmet Seven under "Chocolate Series" for this month and also to my own event: Valentine Fest - Served with Love.

Prep time : 15 mins. Bake time : 15-17 mins (Oven timings vary). Makes : 7 cupcakes
Ingredients:
Dry ingredients:
- Wholewheat flour – 1 cup
- Cocoa powder – 3 TBSP
- Instant Chocolate mix (I used Hersheys) – 2 TBSP
- Baking Soda – ½ tsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Cinnamon powder – ½ TBSP
- Powdered Sugar – ½ cup
- Grated Chocolate – ½ cup (I used Godiva chocolate bar- you may use any sweetened chocolate. If using unsweetened chocolate, increase proportion of condensed milk or sugar slightly )
- Flaxseed meal – 2 tablespoon (Reco : use 1.5 TBSP)
Wet ingredients:
- Olive oil – ⅓ cup
- Curd / Yoghurt – 4 TBSP
- Condensed milk – 5 TBSP
- Vanilla essence – a dash (optional but recommended)

Method:
1) Sift wholewheat, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon powder, instant chocolate powder, cocoa powder thrice over
2) In a large bowl, add sugar, condensed milk, oil & yoghurt and mix well till sugar dissolves (Tip: use powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar)
3) Mix flaxseed meal in 4 tablespoon of water in another bowl and leave for 4 – 5 mins.
Meanwhile preheat oven to 165 / 170 deg C.
4) Now add the flaxseed meal+water to the wet ingredients in step 2 above. Add vanilla essence and mix well.
5) Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well, not to over do it. The resulting slurry will be very thickish. Add 1 – 2 teaspoon of water or milk if required to get a less dense mixture.
6) Line cupcake moulds and spoon in ¾ of the moulds with the cupcake mixture (from above step)
7) Bake at 170 deg C for 15 mins. Check once if toothpick comes clean, else bake for 1-2 mins more. Take care not to burn the cupcakes
8) You may glaze this more chocolate glaze or dust with icing sugar. But for my family, this was more chocolate than we could handle, and it was perfect.
9) Serve with tea or pack into kids’ snackboxes for a school time treatJ
Sending this to:
- My event -Valentine Fest - Served with Love
- Gourmet Seven - February with Chocolate
- Srav's CC - Dish for Loved ones
- Sumee's Bon Vivant
- Valli's Chocolate Mela
- Resh's Chocolate Lover
- Anzz's Valentine Special
- Bake Fest, hosted by Anusha
- Tea Time Snacks event by Akheela
- Vimitha's Love and Chocolate Fest













Priya dharshini says
Yummy chocolate cupcakes...i can munch anytime
Kaveri Venkatesh says
A sinful indulgence indeed...Looks so yummy and chocolaty
Unknown says
Wow ninu would have surely loved this one kal. Truly gourmet style and great work on the eggless version trying it this weekend 🙂
Vimitha Durai says
Hmmm yummy and chocolty. a true feast. Do send it across to my ongoing event
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Priya Suresh says
Wat a guilt free and marvellous cupcakes..
Vardhini says
Truly sinful Kalyani .. perfect for this chocolate month. 🙂
Ramya says
cupcakes look so yum..
Archana says
Looks so yum.
Sravs says
wow very cute and wonderful cupcakes !! Thanks for linking to the event 🙂
Ongoing Event - CC-Dish For Loved Ones
Sumee says
Sinful indeed Kalyani. Thanks for linking up to my event. :o)
Nisha says
Sinful, sinful, indeed.
But, whatever, right?! 😀 😀 😀 😀
Aarthi says
This looks awesome..Yummy Recipe
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Unknown says
U guys r still on a roll! Cupcakes look very yummy n tempting!
Vidhya says
Cupcakes look fabulous.
Torviewtoronto says
thank you Kalyani for linking these delicious looking cupcakes to the tea time snack event
The Pumpkin Farm says
these look super delicious, everytime I decide enough of baking I land up seeing something tempting. So you also have flaxseed baking experience now 🙂 I have to join the gang soon
The Pumpkin Farm says
these look super delicious, everytime I decide enough of baking I land up seeing something tempting. So you also have flaxseed baking experience now 🙂 I have to join the gang soon
Radhika says
Love the use of all the chocolates here and it looks so decadent.
Unknown says
Triple chocolate !!! nothing can get better than that 🙂
Sangeetha M says
triple chocolate cup cakes looks so tempting...perfectly baked!!
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Rosie says
Nice...i have never made an eggless cake..so why use flaxseed powder?
Also fill the liner about 2/3rds...that way you will have a nice rounded cupcake.. 🙂
Padhu Sankar says
Wow Looks divine!