Chocolate Cupcakes
easy chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate Cherry Cupcake
Recipe Type: Cakes & Baking
Cuisine: British
Author: Caroline Artiss
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 25 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 12
This is such an easy way to make yummy cupcakes. You just mix it all in a pan and away you go. Perfect for making as a special treat. This is one of my favourite recipes from Nigella Lawson, I just had to show you!
Ingredients
50g self-raising Flour
125g Butter unsalted
150g caster sugar
100g dark Chocolate
300g cherry Jam
2 large Eggs lightly beaten
Pinch of salt
Icing
100g Dark chocolate
100ml ½ cup double Cream
Equipment:
Muffin tin and cases
Instructions
Pre heat oven to gas 4 / 180 c
Heat the butter in a saucepan, when it has almost all melted turn the heat off and add the chocolate
Stir until the chocolate has melted
Add the jam, eggs, sugar and salt
Beat with a spoon until all mixed together, then sift in the flour and fold together
Spoon mixture into the muffin cases until they are about half full
Pop straight into the oven for 20 -25 minutes
To test if they are ready they should be springy when you touch them, they bounce back when you push the top
Or you can poke a thin skewer into the cake and if it comes out clean, without any gooey mixture on then they are ready
Leave them to cool on a wire rack then make the icing
Icing:
Break the dark chocolate into a saucepan; add the cream the heat gently
Stirring all the time until it starts to go shiny and thick
Take off the heat then spread the icing on top of your cakes and decorate away