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Perfect Chocolate Cupcakes topped with a chocolate buttercream frosting!
You can have Chocolate cupcake using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chocolate cupcake
- Prepare 60 g of good quality cocoa powder.
- You need 4-5 Tbsp of boiling hot water.
- It's 175 g of unsalted butter, softened (at room temperature).
- It's 175 g of caster sugar.
- It's 120 g of self-raising flour.
- You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 3 of eggs.
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Chocolate cupcake instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C / Gas mark 6. Line 2 - 12 hole bun trays with paper cases..
- Sift the cocoa into a large bowl; add 4 Tbsp of boiling water and mix into a thick chocolate syrup, adding more water if you needed. Add the softened butter, sugar, self-raising flour, baking powder and eggs. Mix with electric beaters until smooth and evenly mixed..
- Teaspoon of the mixture into the paper cases, filling them 3/4 full. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the sponge mixture has risen and the cupcakes spring back when you touch them. Remove from the oven; cool on a wire rack..
- Decorate with chocolate sprinkles or however you like..
- ✅NOTES: If you use self raising flour only use 1 tsp of baking powder. if you use all purpose flour, you can use 2 tsp baking powder & sifted it several time..
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