Cupcake Help!

[blondebombshell]

looking for delicious recipes to make some cupcakes.

everytime i make them, they turn out like bricks. i cant find a recipe to make them light and fluffy!

any icing recipes too?

[moonlitemama]

Ooh, I just had wonderful luck converting a recipe from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. They turned out very moist.

Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

makes 2 eight-inch round layers of one 9x13-inch cake (sorry, I can't remember how many cupcakes it made)

1 2/3 c. flour (I used Bette Hagman's 4 flour bean mix)

1 c. sugar

1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 c. buttermilk or sour milk (I used 1 Tblsp vinegar +hemp milk to make 1 cup)

1/2 c. vegetable oil

2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour two 8-inch round cake pans or one 9x13-inch pan. Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Add the buttermilk or sour milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla, beating until smooth. Spread in the pans or pan and bake, about 20-25 minutes for the small pans (or cupcakes), 35-45 minutes for the large one. Test to see if a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan before turning out onto a rack.