Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Double chocolate cupcakes



Ingredients:

200g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
50g cocoa
drop of vanilla essence
120g caster sugar
3 eggs
100g melted chocolate
100g butter
40 ml  milk

Butter cream icing:
100g melted dark chocolate
250g butter
200g icing sugar
25ml milk
  1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees celcius.
  2. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder into a bowl.
  3. In a secong bowl cream together the the butter and sugar until pale and creamy then add vanilla essence. Then beat eggs in one at a time.
  4. Add half dry mix to butter mix followed by half the milk then repeat untill all flour mix is added to wet mix.
  5. Fold in the melted chocolate.
  6. Fill cupcake cases in a cupcake tin and bake in oven for 15 to 20 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool.
  7. To make the butter cream fosting beat the butter until soft and the sifted icing sugar and cooled melted chocolate add milk to loosen if too thick.
  8. Spread or pipe the the frosting over the cooled cupcakes.

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