Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

the recipe is from the Vol.10 No.107 issue of FLAVORS Magazine. the author of this recipe (Norma Cikiamco)actually published her own cookbook (The Recipes I Love) where one can find the recipe of this cupcake.

Norma Cikiamco "These cupcakes contain no butter or eggs, and the batter can just be stirred manually with a whisk or wooden spoon, and yet they come out so moist ans sinfully rich"

Ingredients:

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (i bought a small repacked Dutch Cocoa powder)

1 cup sugar

1-1/2 cups All-Purpose flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup water

1/3 cup Baguio Vegetable Oil (I used Canola oil, coz that's the oil available here)

1 Tbsp white vinegar

1 tsp. Vanilla

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Procedure:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

2.) In a bowl, sift together cocoa powder,sugar,flour,salt and baking soda. Slowly pour in water, vegetable oil,vinegar and vanilla. Stir just until all ingredients are evenly combined, about 50 strokes. Add Chocolate Chips

*for some reasons, the chocolate chips melted on the baking process and it created like holes (check the pic above) so I'm thinking of reducing the chocolate chips, or i just don't know where i went wrong. All I know is when I was mixing the batter, there were sort of bubbles, asked my Mom how to get rid of it, she said just sort of drop the bowl with batter (sort of banging) it on the table top to release the air. 

3.)Line a muffin pan with paper baking cups. Pour batter into baking cups around two-thirds full, making sure there are enough chocolate chips in each cups.

*even half full coz the cupcake rises during the baking process.

4.)Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool.

*again, im not using an oven so i baked mine in an oven, 200 degrees Celcius for 10 minutes. Made the 1st batch 20 minutes and it sticked to the baking cups. So you can only eat the soft part which is less than half of the whole cupcake. the last batch which i did for 10 minutes turned out the best of all batches -- and i baked them using a silicon cupcake container/cups.

5.)If desired, top cupcakes with your favorite frosting.

*since there were HOLES on my cupcakes, i sifted powdered sugar and cinnamon powder on the cupcakes, trying to hide the holes.

the best batch would definitely be the one on top. i even placed banana as toppings