Chocolate cupcakes vintage recipe

July 2, 1:16 PMSan Jose Dessert ExaminerJoy Valerie Cronn

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  Chocolate cupcakes (Wikimedia Commons)

Vintage items, antiques, classics are special.  They show us a glimpse of our history, of times past, bring back memories or wishful fantasies.  Vintage recipes are no different.

This one is from the 1930s, during the Great Depression, so it uses vanilla flavoring and shortening, and doesn't offer double chocolate.  It's frugal, so if today's economy has us pinching pennies, it's perfect, but if we are seeing better times, it's easy to add a second square of chocolate, use real vanilla or substitute the shortening with real butter.

For more vintage recipes, see my Vintage Recipe Thursday at Joy Of Desserts, and if you too are an afficionado of vintage recipes or want to preserve some beloved family recipes from getting lost and forgotten with time, join me and the other participants on Thursdays.

Chocolate Cupcakes
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
1 egg, well beaten
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 square unsweetened chocolate

Melt chocolate over hot water.  Cream shortening and sugar.  Add egg, chocolate, and flavoring.  Beat thoroughly.  Sift flour, measure, and sift with salt and baking powder.  Add alternately with milk to first mixture.  Fill well-oiled muffin tins 2/3 full.  Bake in moderate oven (375° F.) about 35 minutes.

   Easy Tip:

• Use red, white and blue sprinkles or stars for an easy patriotic dessert on the 4th of July!

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