Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting

If you are a big fan of chocolate, having it as a small cupcake is a treat.  I know Mr C loves chocolate, so baked these for him so ready for the weekend to share.  It was great fun for me to bake them and especially give me an opportunity to use and improve the frosting with the piping bag.

This is a very simple chocolate sponge recipe taken from 'Bake me i'm yours...Cupcake' by Joan & Graham Belgrove. The frosting recipe was from Joy of Baking.

Ingredients:

Chocolate Sponge:

3 Eggs
175g Caster Sugar
115g Self Raising Flour
6tspn Cocoa Powder
1.5tspn Baking Powder
1tspn Vanilla Extract
175g Butter

Chocolate Fudge Frosting:

120g Plain Chocolate, coarsely chopped
150g Unsalted butter
160g Icing Sugar
1.5tspn Vanilla Extract

Method:

1) Pre-heat the oven to 170C/338F/Gas3-4. Place cases in bun trays.
2)Put  sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla extract into food processor. Blitz together on full power fr a good 2-3 minutes. Remove blade. Alternatively, mix it all together with a hand-held whisk.
3)Sieve the flour, baking powder and cocao together into a separate bowl and then add to the mix gradually, folding in with a spatula.
4)Spoon the mixture into the baking cases.
5)Place in the centre of the oven and bake for 16-18 mins or until the tops of the cakes spring back when lightly touched.
6)Turn and cool on wire racks.

7) For the frosting, melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
8)In a bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth and creamy for about 1 minute. Add the sugar and beat until it is light and fluffy for about 2 minutes. Beat the vanilla extract. Add the chocolate and beat on a low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until frosting is smooth and glossy for about 2-3minutes.

9) Once the cupcake have completely cooled, frost with icing. You can spread the frosting on the cupcake with a small spatula or with piping bag with a star tip.


I was a little bored, i added some chopped nuts in one tray.  why not eh?

Happy Baking!