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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Easy Double Chocolate Cupcake

One of those good one-bowl mix recipes, don't even have to cream the butter and sugar together. The results was really good for such a simple recipe. Definitely a keeper!


Recipe adpated from here

Ingredients


Cake:

4 cups self raising flour
1 1/2 cups castor sugar
1 cup cocoa, sifted
1 250g pkt milk choc chips
1 1/2 cups milk
4 eggs, lightly beaten
250g melted butter, cooled
2 tsp vanilla essence

Icing:
1/2 cup cream
200g dark chocolate
3 cups icing mixture
100g butter softened

Method:


1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Set 30 patty pan cases on 2 trays.

2. Mix flour, sifted cocoa and castor sugar together.

3. Combine eggs, milk, butter and vanilla essence.

4. Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir gently with a metal spoon to combine.

5. Bake for 12-15 mins or until skewer in the centre comes out clean.



For the icing:

6. In a glass bowl place cream and dark chocolate. Microwave for 1 minute and stir until all the chocolate is melted, making a ganache.

7. Whip the butter until pale and slowly add the icing mixture and ganache. Add a few drops of milk if the icing is too thick. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and dust with cocoa for decoration.

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