Verdict: Chocolate cupcakes

They're a little disappointing. They're very like brownies, and are really rather edible, but I can't shake the feeling that they're not as good as the brownie recipe I've baked previously. I'd hoped they'd be more cakey than they are, but they're not enough like cakes to be cakes. But they're too much a halfway house between cake and brownie to be really good brownie either. It's good, but I'd rather have a good cake or a good brownie instead. I think if I'd not poked them and hadn't used any muscovado sugar, they'd have been lighter, airier and all around more cake-like, and that might be all that it would have taken. They're quite good, but they fall in a gap that doesn't really need filling.