Chocolate Cupcakes
Recipe by Paris Cutler
Demonstrated at the 2011 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- Pinch of salt
- 60g butter, unsalted
- 1½ cups caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¾ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
Method
- Preheat fan forced oven to 1700C.
- Prepare muffin tin and line it with patty pans.
- Sift together the plain flour baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt.
- In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one by one, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla.
- Add the flour mixture alternatively to milk. Mix well.
- Bake cupcakes for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Decorate the cupcakes when cool.
- Makes 10
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