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Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes

Who doesn't love a chocolate cupcake? And if you're new to baking, cupcakes are a great thing to start with.

 

You dont need a fancy mixer to make these, in fact most of the time I use my hand mixer to make cupcakes and save my stand mixer for bigger bakes.

 

This makes 10-12 cupcakes depending on the size of your cupcake cases. I use 50mm cupcake cases and get 10 cupcakes from this recipe

 

Ingredients

 

Cupcakes

100g Baking Spread (ie stork)

100g Caster Sugar

100g Self Raising Flour

25g Cocoa Powder

2 medium eggs

 

Buttercream

100g Unsalted Butter

300g Icing Sugar

40g Cocoa Powder

Some milk or cooled boiled water, I normally use around 40mls (2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons)

 

Cupcakes

  • Turn the oven on - 160°C fan (180°C non fan)
  • Lay out your cupcake tray (or baking tray) and your cupcakes cases
  • I always weigh out all my ingredients before I start
  • Put your sugar and baking spread into one bowl, flour and cocoa powder into a second bowl, crack your eggs into a glass, if you find this messy try a small bowl instead
  • Mix your sugar and baking spread together, you want to keep mixing until it starts to get paler, it should go from light yellow to cream
  • Add in your eggs and mix for 30 seconds to a minute
  • Add in your flour and cocoa powder then mix until everything is combined, you shouldn't be able to see any flour
  • Using an ice cream scoop or a spoon put your mixture in the cupcake cases, you don't want to overfill the cases, you should have at least a finger sized gap at the top
  • Bake for 25 minutes - they are ready when they spring back if you press gently on the top. If they arent ready after the first bake pop them back in the oven for 5 minutes at a time until they spring back

 

Chocolate Cupcake

 

Buttercream

  • Start with soft unsalted butter in a bowl
  • Add half of the icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix for 30 seconds
  • Add the second half of the icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix until it resembles sand
  • Add a drop of milk or cooled boiled water, and mix well. Only add small amounts at a time until you get the consistency you want. 
  • You want the buttercream to be a similar consistency to toothpaste so it's easy to pipe.

 

My favourite piping tips are a 1M or a 2D, they are quite similar and give a rose like affect

 

If you're not a fan of piping then try my buttecream trick on instagram using greaseproof paper!

 

Happy Baking

 

Tracey x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracey Gribble

27.10.2022

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