Do you need a quick and easy chocolate cupcake recipe? then this is the one for you!
Yesterday I baked these chocolate cupcakes, I realised I haven’t made them for a while so stuck the oven on and whipped these up.
Ingredients:
3 eggs ( weight them and all the other ingredients need to be weighed to the same amount) Mine came to 188g
Self-raising flour
Caster sugar
Softened butter, or baking spread
2 tbsp cocoa powder
For the icing:
147g Icing sugar
1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
75g unsalted butter softened
1 wisps bar
1 tube of smarties
4 chocolate fingers
Lakeland caramel swirls
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees fan
Cream together the butter and sugar
Sift together the flour and cocoa powder
Add one egg at a time into the creamed butter and sugar, with a tbsp of the flour mixture
Mix until incorporated after adding each of the eggs
Fold the rest of the flour and cocoa powder into the cake batter trying to get as much air into the mixture as possible.
Spoon equally into each cupcake case
Bake in the oven for 18-22 minutes, taking them out when a skewer comes out clean.
Leave to cool for 10 minutes before transferring onto a wire rack.
Buttercream icing
method:
Sift together the icing sugar and cocoa powder
Cream the butter before adding in the sifted icing sugar and cocoa powder a couple of spoonfuls at a time.
Add a tsp of cold water into the icing one by one until you get the right consistency, you don’t want it too stiff but don’t add too much water either.
Spoon the icing into an icing bag with the nozzle of your choice, for these I just used a round one but i have to say its not my favourite.
Ice the cupcakes adding the decorations as you go.
leave to set for 20 minutes before transferring to a container.
There you have a quick and easy chocolate cupcake recipe, let me know what you would like me to bake next in the comments, like and hit the follow button!
megan white 