Mocha Cupcakes
Recipe Video
| Serves: | Makes 12 |
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Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 100g Président unsalted butter
- 100g Billingtons Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 Happy eggs
- 100g Allinsons Self Raising Flour
- 2 tbsps cocoa powder
- 2 tsp Nielsen-Massey Coffee Extract
Frosting
- 200g Président unsalted butter
- 400g Silverspoon icing sugar
- 150g Silverspoon Dark Chocolate Cake Covering, melted
To Decorate
- Silverspoon Mini Fudge Chunks
- Silverspoon Chocolate Decorations
Equipment
- Kenwood KMix Stand Mixer fitted with the K Beater
- Scales
- Mixing Bowls
- Oven Thermometer
- Spatula
- Sieve
- Spoons
- Measuring spoons
- 12 hole cupcake pan
- Silver cupcake liners
- Large Disposable Piping Bags
- Large Piping nozzles (star shaped)
- Microwave (for melting the chocolate)
- Cooling rack.
Method
- Preheat oven to 160°c fan/180°c/Gas Mark 4.
- Line the recesses of a 12 hole cupcake pan with paper liners.
- Sift together the flour and cocoa powder.
- Cream together the butter, sugar and coffee extract until light and fluffy using the Kenwood KMIx Stand Mixer fitted with the K Beater
- Add the eggs, one at a time through the chute, with a spoonful of the sifted dry mixture to prevent curdling. Mix well.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients and Combine on a slow speed. Stop the Kenwood KMix as soon as the flour has been incorporated.
- Divide the mixture between the paper liners.
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to Cool in the pan for five minutes before turning out and cooling on a wire rack.
To make the frosting
- beat together the butter and icing sugar until smooth in the bowl of the kMix. Add the melted chocolate and beat again until fully combined.
- Add the frosting to a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe swirls of frosting onto the tops of the cooled cupcakes.
- Add mini fudge chunks and a chocolate decoration to each to finish.
Tips:
- Using the K Beater with the Kenwood KMix ensures that cake mixture is even, without the need for frequent scraping down with a spatula.
- Mocha cupcakes can easily be changed to Chocolate cupcakes by omitting the coffee extract.
- Want an extra coffee hit? Beat in 1 tsp of coffee extract to the frosting too!
- If you would like to frost the cupcakes with a spatula instead of piping swirls, halve the frosting quantity as you won’t need quite so much.
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