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Midnight Mint Mini Cupcakes

Recipe submitted by The Lone Baker

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Mini cupcakes, dark and minty, the perfect after dinner mint experience.

Ingredients

1½ cups self-raising flour
½ cup cocoa powder (preferably dark dutch processed)
¾ cup caster sugar
¾ cup milk
60g dark chocolate melted
125g butter melted, cooled
2 large eggs beaten
1 teaspoon pure vanilla essence
2 peppermint crisp bars chopped
Peppermint ganache
½ cup cream
200g (7oz) dark eating chocolate chopped
2 drops of peppermint essence or oil

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Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a 24 cup mini muffin pan with paper cases.
Combine sifted flour and cocoa with the caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
Add milk, butter, chocolate, eggs and vanilla to flour mixture. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.
Divide mixture into the paper cases. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean, careful not to overbake. Stand in pan for 5 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Peppermint Ganache
Bring cream to the boil in a small saucepan, remove from heat, add chocolate, stir until smooth & add essence.
Dip the top of cooled cakes, one by one into the ganache. Sprinkle with chopped Peppermint crisp bar.

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Notes & Tips

*the ganache will lose it's gloss once set, if you are not serving the cakes within an hour but want "gloss" a teaspoon of corn syrup stirred in after the chocolate has melted into the cream will preserve the gloss.