It has almost become a tradition for me to bake something for the office on a Sunday. I love baking, and feel I have enough time on a Sunday to spend hours in the kitchen, and most people like a little Monday pick-me-up.
Two Sundays ago now I made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, their first cookbook.
I want to learn how to decorate cakes, but one step at the time, this time I piped the frosting and decorated it with glitter or rice-paper roses, all edible, but not sure the roses tasted much.
Chocolate cupcakes, makes 12-14
100 g plain flour
20 g cocao
140 g caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
40 g softened butter
120 ml whole milk
1 egg
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Beat butter, cocao, sugar, baking powder and flour in a bowl until sandy. Mix milk, egg and vanilla extract in a bowl/jug and add that to the sandy mixture while whisking. Beat until fully combined. Fill cupcake cases to 2/3 and bake in 175 C for 20-25 mins. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Chokladfrosting, enough for 14 cupcakes
300 g icing sugar
100 g softened butter
40 g cocao
40 ml whole milk
Beat sugar, cocao and butter in a bowl. Add the milk bit by bit and beat until the frosting is glossy. Pipe onto the completely cool cupcakes.
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