Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

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Course Cake, Dessert
Cuisine European, French
Servings 16 cupcakes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

Chocolate Cupcakes & Buttercream Frosting 2

  • 65 g unsalted butter
  • 130 g dark chocolate chopped (or broken up)
  • 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
  • 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 1/4 cups white granulated sugar caster sugar
  • 2 egg
  • 1 cup buttermilk

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting:

  • 250 g salted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups white granulated sugar icing sugar (to taste)

Instructions

The cake batter

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Melt the dark chocolate either in a double boiler or in the microwave. Add butter to the melted dark chocolate and mix until the butter is well incorporated. Leave to cool slightly.
  • Sift the flour, sugar and cocoa powder into a mixing bowl. Mix with a wooden spoon or spatula. Add the eggs and buttermilk and stir until blended. Then add chocolate and butter mixture and fold it until it all incorporated.
  • Line the cupcake tins with paper wrappers and spoon the cupcake batter to fill ¾ of the cup. Bake for 25mins or until the skewer comes out clean. Do not over-bake.

The frosting

  • Add the stick of butter into the mixing bowl and cream for about 3 minutes. Add vanilla extract and continue to mix adding the icing sugar as you go. Mix until light and fluffy.
  • Taste test as you go adding more icing sugar when needed. Once cupcakes having fully cooled, pipe the frosting and you're done.

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