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Chocolate Cupcakes
This is my fail-safe recipe for chocolate cupcakes made with cocoa powder. Use whatever type of chocolate you prefer for the chocolate buttercream icing: dark, milk, or even flavoured chocolate such as mint or orange work well.
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- Cupcakes
- 60g good quality (70%) cocoa powder
- 4 or 5 tablespoons boiling hot water
- 175g unsalted butter, softened
- 175g caster sugar
- 120g self raising flour
- 1 level teaspoon baking powder
- 3 eggs
- Buttercream Icing
- 100g dark chocolate, melted
- 60g butter, softened
- 250g icing sugar
- chocolate sprinkles, for decorating
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:10min ›
Ready in:30min
- Cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Line 2 - 12 hole cupcake trays with colourful paper cases.
- Sift the cocoa into a large bowl then add 4 tablespoons of boiling water and mix into a thick chocolate syrup, adding more water if you needed. Add the softened butter, sugar, self raising flour, baking powder and eggs. Mix with electric beaters until smooth and evenly mixed.
- Spoon teaspoons of the mixture into the paper cases, filling them 3/4 full. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the sponge mixture has risen and the cupcakes spring back when you touch them. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Buttercream Icing: Mix the melted chocolate and softened butter in a large bowl then sift in the icing sugar, beating with a spoon or an electric beater until smooth.
- Spoon the buttercream into a piping bag with a number 5 star nozzle. Pipe buttercream icing evenly on top of each cupcake. Decorate with chocolate sprinkles or however you like.
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Reviews and Ratings
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The cakes are lovely and light and worked perfectly. However, the icing was far too dry. I would start with 100 grams and then slowly increase if required. Because I followed the instructions I ended up adding another 50g of chocolate and loads more butter. - 11 Oct 2012 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)
I made these cakes yesterday for a hen party and although they tasted lovely, every single one came completely away from the cases !! So I'm now having cake and custard for the next week lol - 26 Jul 2013 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)
Best choc cupcake recipe ever. After trying so many and all others sinking this worked and the cakes were gorgeous - 22 May 2013 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)