Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to our blog, how are you today? Today's blog post is by Lydia, and as you can tell by the title this blog post is a recipe. The recipe is for chocolate cupcakes, this recipe isn't my recipe, it's actually a Mary Berry recipe, and I will tell you now, they are probably the best chocolate cupcakes that I've ever made! It is a really good recipe! So, let's get on with the recipe.

Ingredients for the cupcakes:

• 40g Cocoa Powder,
• 3 Eggs,
• 175g Butter (unsalted), softened,
• 165g Caster Sugar,
• 115g Self-Raising Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder,
• 4 tbsp Boiled Water.

Ingredients for the icing:

• 60g Butter (unsalted),
• 30g Cocoa Powder,
• 250g Icing Sugar,
• 3 tbsp Milk (if needed).

How to make the cupcakes:

1. Pre-heat oven to 200°C (Gas Mark 6),
2. Line the cupcake tin with cupcake cases,

3. Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl, pour boiling water and mix into a thick paste,

4. Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix with an electric whisk (or beat with a wooden spoon),

5. Put mixture into cake cases, make sure the mixture is evenly spread out,

6. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 12-15 minutes, until well risen and springy to touch.

7. Once baked put move the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool down.

How to make the icing:

1. Melt butter and pour into a bowl and sift the cocoa powder,

2. Stir in the icing sugar a little at a time until glossy and spreadable,

3. If the icing is too thick gradually add the milk until it reaches the desired consistency.

4. Pipe the icing over the cupcakes, although I just spread the icing onto the cupcakes.

5. Add decorations, if you want. I just added white and gold sprinkles on top, and this is the finished product!

That is the end of the recipe, I absolutely love this recipe. It is so good! I seriously recommend that you make these cupcakes as they are so yummy, plus they seem to go down well with my family. The order that this recipe is much different to what I normally do but it's so much better!

Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this recipe blog post! If you follow this recipe then be sure to let us know and tweet us some pictures of your masterpieces! Thank you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed it! Have any of you got a recipe that you swear by? If so let us know and we will check it out. 

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Festive Gingerbread Cupcakes

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog. How are you today? I hope you're having a good day! As it's the run up to Christmas we are doing a little 5 day blogmas from today until Christmas Day! So, our first blogmass blog post this year had to be our festive baking post. We did one of these last year making Gingerbread men, they were so good. So this year we thought we would try and top that and make gingerbread cupcakes! They turned out good although we did have a couple of mini disasters! So without further ado let's get on with the recipe!

This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.

Ingredients:

75g unsalted butter

100g caster sugar

125ml black treacle

1 large egg

1 large egg yolk

175g plain flower

1tbsp cocoa powder

1 1/4tsp ground ginger

1tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground allspice

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

125ml cup of hot milk

You will also need cupcake cases

For the buttercream:

240g softened butter

400g sifted icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 tbsp milk

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 175 degrees C/Gas mark 4. Put your chosen cupcake cases into your tray ready for when the cake mix is made.

Step 2: In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until creamed.

Step 3: Once the butter and sugar are creamed together, add the treacle and the egg and egg yolk, and mix together.

Step 4: In a different large bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and salt.

Step 5: Heat the milk carefully making sure that it doesn't boil. When the milk is heated add the baking soda and let it dissolve in the milk.

Step 6: Add the flour mixture into the bowl with the butter and sugar mixture and mix them together.

Step 7: Stir in the hot milk mixture into the other mixture and keep mixing, until all together.

Step 8: Spoon the mixture evenly into the cupcake cases in the tray. Bake the cupcakes for 15-20 minutes or until they are slightly springy to touch.

Step 9: After the cakes are cooked and are ready to come out of the oven, put them on a wire rack and leave them to cool.

As the cupcakes are cooling you can start to make the buttercream icing.

Step 1: Cream the butter in a large bowl until it is smooth then gradually add the icing sugar in with the butter, keep whisking until it is light and fluffy.

Step 2: Add the vanilla and milk and keep mixing until it is completely combined.

Step 3: Once the cupcakes are fully cooled, you can start to put the icing on them. We originally tried to use a piping bag to put the icing on, however, we picked a nozzle that was too small so the icing didn't come out right, so we just used a knife to spread the icing around the cakes.

Step 4: Add decorations of your choice. We added gingerbread men sprinkles as we thought they looked super cute and thought they went well with whole gingerbread theme!

After you've finished decorating them, you can enjoy eating them! We loved these cupcakes, as we love gingerbread men. These cupcakes were lovely, they tasted like Christmas, it made us feel even more festive, if that's possible!

Anyway, we hope that you enjoyed this blog post and thank you for reading! We hope that you make some of these as they were very nice! If you do make some, tweet us a picture on Twitter, we would love to see them! Thank you again for reading and we hope you enjoyed this.

Merry Christmas !! 

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Christmas Cupcakes

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Hi everyone, it's Jade and today's blog post will be another recipe. We love baking and at Christmas time I guess you tend to bake a bit more. So I thought it would be a great idea to show you this simple recipe. This is just a normal cupcake recipe but I think the decorations make it more festive. So carry on reading to find out how to make the perfect cupcakes. 

Ingredients

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• 110g- Butter
• 110g- Caster Sugar
• 2- eggs (lightly beaten)
• 1 tsp- Vanilla extract 
• 110g- self raising flour 
• 1-2 tbsp- Milk 

For the buttercream icing

• 140g- Butter
• 280g- Icing Sugar
• 1-2 tbsp- Milk

How to make them:

Firstly you want to preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases you can go to town on the cases I think the more the festive the better. I've opted for a gold foil case as I'm trying to stay classic. 

Then get a bowl and get your kitchen aid, whisker or wooden spoon and cream the butter and sugar together until it turns more paler than usual. 

Then beat in the eggs add them little at a time and stir in the vanilla extract. You can add more vanilla if you feel it's not very strong... I always end up doing that.

After that you want to fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, adding a little milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are half full the key trick is to make sure all the liquid inside the cases are equal then your cupcakes will look better when they are equal.

Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.

For the buttercream icing, beat the butter in a large bowl until soft and pale in colour. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth.

Then add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk, adding more milk if necessary, until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

Then spoon the icing into a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe the icing using a spiralling motion onto the cup cakes in a large swirl.

Then the best part is to get your decorations you can get any type of decorations but I've opted for sprinkles and I got these from various baking shops. Then go to town with the, sprinkle them everywhere !! 

I hope you have enjoyed this blogpost and you have been inspired to do some festive baking! Be sure you let your family eat them and let them tell you feedback!! 

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

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