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Libbie's chocolate cupcakes

Libbie's chocolate cupcakes

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goodtoknow user Libbie sent in her chocolate cupcake recipe, which she adapted from The Hummingbird Bakery's recipe. Libbie says: 'They were yummy' and they look like it too!

Serves: 12
Prep time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Mid-price

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Ingredients

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For the chocolate cupcakes:

100g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
140g caster sugar
1.5tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
40g unsalted butter at room temperature
120ml whole milk
1 egg
¼tsp of vanilla extract

For the chocolate buttercream frosting:

600g icing sugar sifted
200g unsalted butter
80g cocoa powder
80ml whole milk

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F) gas 3.
Put flour, cocoa, sugar and baking powder, salt and butter in a free-standing mixer with paddle attachment. Mix together until you have a sandy consistency.
Whisk milk, egg and vanilla in a jug. Slowly pour half into the mixture, beat to combine and then turn the mixer up to high speed to get rid of any lumps.
Turn the mixer down to a slower speed and pour in the remaining mixture. Continue to mix for a couple of mins. Do not over mix.
Spoon mixture into the 12 cases and cook for 20 mins.
For the chocolate buttercream: Beat icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder together in a free-standing mixer on a medium speed. Turn down to a low speed and add milk gradually, once mixed turn up to a high speed again and beat for approx 5 mins and mixture is light and fluffy.
Use a piping bag and metal nozzle to pipe onto top of cooled cupcakes.
Decorate with blueberries, edible gold stars and glitter. You could also try decorating these cupcakes with regal iced cut outs or lustre spray.

By Libbie Walters

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Neil Hudson

4:31 PM on 19 May, 2012

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These are delicious, but same as lianlovescooking, I would half the buttercream icing.

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Penelope Griffiths

10:27 PM on 1 April, 2012

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These cakes are wonderful. I was wondering if you would be able to make them in advance and freeze untill needed? Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks x

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Dilon Fisherman

4:10 PM on 25 January, 2012

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Thanx for this recipe its a keeper, the cupcakes were so easy to make and the instructions very helpful. Couple of things though
I filled the cases to 1/2 full only, and made some wells to stop them rising to a peak in the middle.
when they were semi cooled I placed a book on top and that flattened them so more so I could pipe on more icing.
Also mixing the icing for a full 5 minutes deffo makes the icing nice and fluffy easy to pipe.
One last thing I kept the icing in the fridge for about 30 mins to harden up a bit again making it loads easier to pipe.
Great recipe though ;-))

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Siobhan Flynn

11:11 PM on 17 January, 2012

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I have made these twice now and the cakes are fabulous, really moist. But I have one problem which has happened this time.... All of the cases came away from the cakes???
Has this happened to anyone else?

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recipes at random

11:10 PM on 4 December, 2011

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These look really lovely. Check out the chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate frosting I made today today http://recipesatrandom.com/2011/12/04/chocolate-cupcakes-with-white-chocolate-frosting/

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lianlovescooking

1:57 PM on 22 November, 2011

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Really loved the main cupcake recipe, really light and fluffy but I would at least half the buttercream quantities.
I used muffin cases which made 8 and I wasn't stingy with the buttercream but even making half quantities I still had a good dollop leftover!
x

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Maayan

1:57 PM on 15 November, 2011

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Libbie - This recipe is pure geneous!!! I made it for my son's 2nd birthday last week and boy did everyone who ate them love them. The cupcakes were so good people thought I'd bought them. It made my little angel's birthday. Thank you for sharing it....

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siberian tiger

1:38 PM on 4 November, 2011

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Have just finished making these - i do not have a free standing mixer so used an electric hand whisk, i had some clearing up to do after lol but was worth it - made them for my niece as an extra birthday present so hoping she loves them. Kept 3 for myself, husband and wee monster, cannot wait to try them later after dinner.

The buttercream icing i had left over was used to sandwich plain biscuits.

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amyloudotcom

4:30 PM on 25 September, 2011

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Amazing Super perfect yummy scrummy and moist just how a choc cupcake should be :D

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stephenjoll

7:21 AM on 4 August, 2011

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Really awesome!!! Thanks for sharing.

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