Recipe:
Chocolate cupcakes with butter icing
Ingredients:
150g butter
150g castor sugar
2 eggs
250g flour
80g cocoa powder
15ml baking powder
Milk if needed
100g butter
200g icing sugar
60ml cocoa powder
Method:
- Cream the butter and the sugar together until light and fluffy, add the eggs one at a time until all combined.
- Sift all the dry ingredients together then add into the wet mixture.
- If needed add some milk to form a batter.
- Bake at 180'C until cooked.
- In a both cream the 100g of butter until soft, add the sifted icing sugar and cocoa powder to form a thick rich butter icing, it might need a drop of milk or water.
- Place into a piping bag and pipe onto the cooled cupcake.
- Garnish with sprinkles
