Chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes, from above
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Chocolate cupcakes

The chocolate cake, shrunk to party size and crowned with ganache.

45 minTime
3 gProtein each
mildSpice
Chocolate in miniature2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayEggless cocoa cupcakes with ganache.
The original
265kcalsame
3 gproteinsame
2 gfibresame
45minutessame

Chocolate cupcakes, home style.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

12 servings
Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¼ cups
Cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder)⅓ cup
Sugar¾ cup plus 1 tbsp
Curd (plain yogurt, natural yoghurt)½ cup
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)6 tbsp
Milk¾ cup
Baking powder1 tsp
Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)¾ tsp
Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp
Salta pinch
Dark chocolate (bittersweet chocolate)120 g
Fresh cream (thickened cream, heavy cream)⅓ cup plus 1 tbsp

Method

5 steps
  1. 1Heat the oven to 175 C and line a 12 cup muffin tray.
  2. 2Whisk curd, sugar and soda until frothy, then add the oil, milk and vanilla.
  3. 3Sift in the maida, cocoa, baking powder and salt and whisk just smooth. Fill cases two thirds full.
  4. 4Bake 18 to 20 minutes, then cool completely.
  5. 5Pour hot cream over the chopped chocolate, stir smooth and cool until thick. Swirl on top.
Serve it like this

Serve at room temperature on a platter with a sprinkle of chocolate shavings, with cold milk for the kids.

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A little snack Coconut prawns35 min
To drink Cold coffee10 min
To drink Cookies and cream milkshake5 min
Something sweet No churn vanilla ice cream25 min
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