Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate sponge, chocolate buttercream, chocolate drizzle and sprinkles. AMAZING chocolate cupcakes!
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Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 175 g unsalted butter
- 175 g caster sugar/light brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 135 g self raising flour
- 40 g cocoa powder
- 1-3 tbsp whole milk
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- 150 g unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 300 g icing sugar
- 30-50 g cocoa powder
Decoration
- 50 g white chocolate
- sprinkles
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Heat your oven to 180ºc/160ºc fan and line a muffin tray with 12 cases.
- Beat the unsalted butter with the caster sugar/light brown sugar until fluffy.
- Add the eggs, self-raising flour and cocoa powder to the unsalted butter/sugar mix until well combined.
- If the mixture is too stiff you can add 1 tbsp whole milk at a time to get a smooth light consistency.
- Split the mixture evenly into your baking cups, then bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until a skewer poked into one of the cakes comes out clean and they are springy to touch.
- Leave to cool fully on a cooling rack!
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Beat the unsalted butter with an electric mixer for a couple of minutes to loosen.
- Gradually beat in the icing sugar until well combined, then add the cocoa powder and beat for 5 minutes until a silky lovely buttercream texture is produced. If the mixture is a little stiff, add one tbsp boiling water at a time till you reach the consistency you want!
Decoration
- Pipe your buttercream frosting onto your cupcakes however you wish!
- Once iced, melt the white chocolate (in a heat proof bowl in the microwave in short bursts or over a pan of simmering water) and drizzle over the top.
- Add perhaps some sprinkles to finish off!
Notes
- I use this amazing white chocolate to make my drizzle for these chocolate cupcakes.
- I added some chocolate sprinkles to my cupcakes but you can either add some of your choice or leave them off - you make the bake your own!
- I use this cupcake tray for this bake as you just line with cases and on you go!
- These will last for 3 days in an airtight container.
- You can also freeze these little beauties and they will keep for up to 3 months! ENJOY!