Chocolate Cupcakes.
You can cook Chocolate Cupcakes using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Cupcakes
- Prepare 175 g of plain flour.
- It's 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
- Prepare 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
- It's 75 g of cocoa powder.
- You need 1/8 teaspoon of salt.
- You need 3 tablespoons of butter softened.
- Prepare 300 g of caster sugar.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- It's 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 250 ml of milk.
- It's of Chocolate buttercream frosting.
- Prepare 1 cup of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
- Prepare 3 and 1/2 cups of icing sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.
- You need 3 Tablespoons of heavy cream or milk.
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- You need 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract.
- You need of Sprinklers few.
Chocolate Cupcakes instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Line a tray with paper cups..
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa and salt.Set aside..
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy..
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla..
- Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk; beat well. Fill the paper cups 3/4's full..
- Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
- Chocolate butter cream frosting :- With a hand mixer beat the butter on medium speed until creamy - about 2 minutes.
- Add icing sugar, cocoa powder, heavy cream, salt, and vanilla extract. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds, then increase to high speed and beat for 2 full minutes.
- Add up to 1/2 cup more sugar if frosting is too thin or another Tablespoon of cream if frosting is too thick..
