Chocolate Cupcakes

So I have just got back from a few days in London, I have brought a cold back with me, so to cheer me up I decided to make some Chocolate Cupcakes! This recipe is relatively very easy consisting of a chocolate sponge, chocolate buttercream and a few chocolate sprinkles for decoration.

This recipe is tried and tested, perfect for a birthday party or just as a naughty treat. If you don't want the full 12 cupcakes simply just half the recipe to make 6. I'm not the biggest chocolate cake lover, maybe because for every birthday party my family had we would get the chocolate cake from Costco every year, safe to say I have ate a lifetimes worth of chocolate cake. Nonetheless these chocolate cupcakes are abit of me soft and spongey with delicious gooey buttercream on top! I was pretty pleased with how these cupcakes turned out as you may have noticed form the endless amounts of photo's!

Ingredients

100g plain flour

120g caster sugar

40g cocoa powder

40g butter

120ml whole milk

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

few drops of vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Method

Pre-heat oven to 150C/325F/Gas mark 3

Add the dry ingredients to mixing bowl and beat, so add plain flour, sugar, cocoa powder, butter,  baking powder & salt

Once well mixed, in a seperate bowl mix together the wet ingredients (milk, egg & vanilla)h

Once the wet ingredients are well mixed, pour half of the wet mixture into the dry ingredients, beat fast for several minutes

Then add in the remaining wet mixture and finally beat fast one last time

Scoop the ingredients into cupcake cases on a baking tray (I use an ice cream scoop, which makes this process much easier)

Once done, pop in the oven for 20 minutes

Buttercream ingredients

250g icing sugar

100g soft butter

40g cocoa powder

2 tbsp milk

Method

Add the icing sugar, butter & cocoa powder to a mixing bowl and beat

Then add in the milk beat until silky smooth

Once the cupcakes come out of the oven allow to cool before putting buttercream on top

Once cooled use a spatula to spread the buttercream around the cupcake

Sprinkle some sprinkles on top

Done!

Enjoy!

Kevin 

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