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    Home » Desserts » 3 Ingredient Chocolate Cupcakes

    3 Ingredient Chocolate Cupcakes

    by Lainey · Posted: Jan 22, 2016 · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    An easy 3-ingredient Chocolate Cupcake recipe made with flour, eggs, and chocolate chips. These chocolate cupcakes are more on the dense side, but delicious and satisfying!

    Looking for more delicious cupcakes? Try my Red Velvet Cupcakes, Lemon Cupcakes, or my Addicting Pina Colada Cupcakes!

    3 ingredient cupcake on a serving plate

    Tips on How to Make 3 Ingredient Cupcakes

    • When making big batches of cupcakes, just multiply the listed ingredients according to the number of cupcake pieces you need.
    • It is important that before measuring your all-purpose flour, you sift it in a fine flour sieve to avoid lumps in your cupcake.
    • Always remember that spraying your cupcake liners is a must. This is helpful, especially in recipes where no oil or any fat/shortening is added. The cooking spray prevents your baked goods from sticking to the liners.
    • When melting chocolate, be careful not to put your stove on very high heat. It will burn your chocolates and it will also cause them to curdle.
    • After baking your cupcakes, you can always be playful about what frosting you would like to have. My suggestions would be Nutella, cream cheese frosting, whipped cream, chocolate frosting or ganache, vanilla buttercream, peanut butter, or just plain confectioner’s sugar.

    How to Make 3 Ingredient Cupcakes:

    You will need just 3 ingredients for this delicious cupcake recipe and for sure, you can find all of these in your pantry – 3 eggs, chocolate chips, and all-purpose flour:

    eggs, all-purpose flour and chocolate chips for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Preheat oven to 350 F, line 6 cupcake tins with liners and spray with oil. This is an important step that you don’t want to miss because as we have not added any oil/shortening as an ingredient, there is a tendency that the cupcake will stick to the paper cups even after baking:

    spraying the cupcake liners for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    In a large bowl add 3 eggs and whisk it well. You can either do it with a wire whisk or a hand mixer:

    whisking the eggs in a bowl to be used for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Add the all-purpose flour and mix until you see no lumps:

    egg and flour in a bowl for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    The consistency has to be slightly runny, just like this. Set this bowl aside.

    egg and flour mixture for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    In a saucepan, add the chocolate and melt the chocolate until it is nice and smooth:

    chocolate chips in a saucepan for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Stir it consistently so you won’t burn the chocolate. If it still has big lumps of chocolate, continue stirring it:

    slightly melted chocolate chips to be used for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Once the texture is nice and smooth, you can now add the egg mixture to the chocolate and mix very well:

    chocolate chips and egg mixture for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    You can see that it will turn out glossy and smooth:

    chocolate cupcake batter in a saucepan for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Take your cupcake pan that is lined with 6 cupcake liners and add the batter into the liners:

    cupcake batter in a baking pan for 3 ingredient cupcake recipe

    Don’t worry if your cupcake liners do not look neat after adding the batter. It will hold up its shape and will turn out pretty once it is baked.

    After baking for 15-18 minutes, here is your 3-ingredient cupcake, smelling so delicious and chocolatey!

    baked chocolate 3 ingredient cupcakes

    I was so excited to take a spoon and taste it, and indeed, it was perfect! The cupcake texture was moist and it was not too sweet since we did not add any granulated sugar. Perfect to have with a cup of brewed coffee!

    3 ingredient cupcake and fork

    Here’s a full video to completely guide you through the baking process and the recipe is below, Enjoy!


    More Cupcake Recipes:

    • Boston Cream Cupcakes
    • Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes
    • White Chocolate Strawberry Cupcakes

    Happy Baking!

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    3.58 from 7 votes

    3 Ingredient Cupcakes

    Servings: 6

    Ingredients

    • 3 eggs
    • ¼ cup all purpose flour
    • 1 cup of milk chocolate or dark chocolate

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 F, line 6 cupcake tins with liners and spray with oil.
    • In a large bowl add 3 eggs and whisk it well. Next add the all purpose flour and mix until you see no lumps. Set this bowl aside.
    • In a sauce pan add the chocolate and melt the chocolate until it is nice and smooth and be careful not to burn the chocolate.
    • Once it’s nice and smooth add the egg mixture to the chocolate and mix very well.
    • Then take your cupcake pan that is lined with 6 cupcake lines and make sure to spray it and add the batter into the liners.
    • Bake for 15-18 minutes.
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    Comments

    1. Bonnie says

      November 13, 2018 at 6:14 am

      Can’t believe this yummy recipe uses just a few ingredients!

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        August 31, 2020 at 6:13 am

        Hi Bonnie! Yes, it’s really amazing. I hope you can try this as well as the other 3 or less ingredient recipes. Please tag me if ever you bake them. Enjoy baking! 🙂

        Reply
    2. Chol Reath says

      April 20, 2020 at 7:46 am

      Really simple love this recipe 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😁😁😁

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        August 31, 2020 at 6:15 am

        awww, thank you! Tag me please if you make this recipe. What are the other recipes that you like? 🙂

        Reply
    3. baker says

      May 01, 2020 at 12:23 pm

      Can I use Cocoa Powder instead instead of chocolate?

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        October 02, 2020 at 1:36 am

        Hello there,
        Unfortunately, you can’t use cocoa powder for this recipe. It’s best to use chocolates for this cupcake. Thank you for swinging by.

        Reply
        • Lainey says

          October 02, 2020 at 1:41 am

          Please tag me with your cupcake photos when you bake it! 🙂

          Reply
    4. Bob and Frankie says

      June 07, 2021 at 3:24 pm

      1 star
      It tastes like burnt rubber. Can you please make a new recipe? Thanks!

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        June 25, 2021 at 12:25 am

        Oh no, sorry to know about it. It needs to be careful not to burn the chocolates in this recipe. Anyways, I have new recipes every week. I hope you can check them out! 🙂

        Reply
    5. Violet says

      September 30, 2021 at 11:52 am

      4 stars
      You may have better luck melting the chocolate and not having it burn by using a double boiler (an easy way to do this is to put some water in a pot, and a bowl on top of the pot letting the steam slowly melt the chocolate chips!)!

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        February 22, 2023 at 10:35 pm

        Hi Violet, thank you for the tips! I appreciate it.

        Reply
    6. Christopher Mas says

      February 22, 2023 at 3:11 pm

      3 stars
      It was okay, but its kinda more brownie than cupcake.

      Reply
      • Lainey says

        February 22, 2023 at 10:46 pm

        Yeah, this chocolate cupcake looks something like a brownie, which makes it more amazing. Thank you for dropping by, Christopher!

        Reply

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