Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes are a recipe with fresh ingredients from the Muffins category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate couverture
- 150 g butter
- 150 ml milk
- 1 egg
- 100 ml sour cream
- 50 g Brown sugar
- 200 g Flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 400 g dark chocolate couverture
- 200 ml whipping cream
- 50 g butter
- 24 silver nonpareils (in silver or other shiny colors)
- colored sugar confetti
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.
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2.
Coarsely chop the chocolate. Heat the butter in a saucepan, add the chocolate and let it melt. Remove from heat. Whisk together the milk, egg, sour cream and sugar with an electric mixer. In a bowl combine flour, cornstarch, baking powder, cocoa and salt well. Add the milk mixture and chocolate butter and stir to a homogeneous batter. Line a cupcake or muffin tin with paper liners, fill with batter and bake on the middle rack for about 25 minutes. Do a toothpick test. Remove, let cool briefly, take cupcakes off the pan and cool on a wire rack.
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3.
For garnish chop the couverture and place in a bowl. Heat the cream, pour over the chocolate and stir until melted. Add butter flakes and mix in. Let the mixture cool until it starts to set. Then whisk again vigorously and fill a piping bag with a star tip. Pipe onto cupcakes and decorate as desired.
