About the recipe, I thought I would try Laura Vitale's
Check her out! http://www.laurainthekitchen.com/all/episode.php?episodenumber=222
For the cupcakes, we're going to use the 'creaming method'(or that's what I remember from my food and nutrition class)
Basically the creaming method consists of mixing the butter and sugar, and egg together, and lastly adding the flour. Easy right?
Let's get started !
Preheat your oven and prepare your cupcake tins.
First you will need:
1/2 cup of unsalted butter at room temperature
¾ cup Granulated Sugar
¼ cup Brown Sugar
¼ cup Brown Sugar
1 egg
Vanilla essence
And MIXXX !
Don't over mix though. Normally you should stop when the mixture becomes creamy and white-ish in colour.
Second you will need:
½ cup Cocoa Powder
1 cup self raising flour
¼ tsp Salt
*(I'm using self raising flour, because I don't like using baking powder/soda; I can never get the quantities right.
Else you can use
1 Cup of All purpose flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Baking Soda)
½ tsp Baking Soda)
Add the flour and cocoa powder to the 'wet' ingredients
Mix!
Okay so, at first I was really skeptical about the consistency and texture of the mixture, because it looks really 'heavy'
But then I put 3/4 cup buttermilk in it
*To make butter milk, you will simply need one cup of whole milk and one teaspoon of lemon juice or white vinegar. And let it rest for 5 mins
and mixed it quickly
Then I was more reassured after seeing the texture. Just DON'T over mix.
Fun part now!
Filling the cupcakes tins.
Don't be me and try having 'many' cupcakes, you'll end up having cupcakes which look bad.
Bake for 20 Mins or so at 180C.
And we're done!
I can NEVER get the quantities right. This time I put too small quantity in them and now they look like they didn't rise well. :c
Epic fail?
But hey hey! They were so good and so smooth and so yum! :D
For the decoration part now
In the recipe Laura uses buttercream(which I used too) but you could also use whipped cream. I find the consistency of the buttercream much better than that of whipping cream though!
Buttercream is really easy to make, the ingredients you need are:
4 Cups of icing sugar
1 1/3 cup of butter at room temp.
vanilla essence
some spoons of whole milk(depending on the consistency you want)
Then, mixing again. In my opinion, I should have mixed it a little bit more and put more milk.
Put the cream in a piping bag and let's start the FUN
OBVIOUSLY, I had to mess up
To be a lil' more fancy, you can grate chocolate or take cherries and decorate on top.
Voila!
Hope you enjoyed this post and that it prompts you to try this recipe.
Kim
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