Chocolate Orange Cupcakes Recipe
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a delicious plain sponges topped with yummy chocolate orange buttercream and decorated with orange zest.
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup / 120 grams
- Cocoa Powder - 3 tblspn
- Baking Soda - ½ tsp
- Baking Powder - ¾ tsp
- Unsalted Butter - 100 grams soft
- Sugar - ¾ cup / 150 grams
- Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
- Egg - 1
- Milk - ¼ cup
- Orange Zest - 1 tblspn
- For Orange Chocolate Frosting:
- Dark Chocolate - 200 grams
- Unsalted Butter - 50 grams
- Orange Juice - 4 tblspn + 2 tblspn
- Confectioners Sugar - 1 cup
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 180 degree C. Oil a muffin tray or line it with cupcake cases. Set aside.
- Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder. Set aside.
- Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and use a electric beater to cream well.
- Add in egg and cream till fluffy.
- Now add in half flour mix and fold gently. Add in milk and mix gently.
- Add in remaining flour and fold gently. Add in orange zest and fold gently.
- Use a icecream scoop to fill the cupcake moulds. Bake for 20 to 25 mins. Remove it and let it cool for 10 mins,
- Once it is cooled, remove it from cases and let it cool down completely.
- While the cupcake is cooling make frosting.
- Take chocolate, butter, 4 tblspn of orange juice in a sauce pan.. Melt it till molten.
- Add in icing sugar and mix well
- Pour this into a bowl and chill it for 30 mins.
- Now remove it from fridge and use a beater to beat till creamy.
- If it is too stiff, add some orange juice and beat.
- Once it is creamy. frost your cupcakes and enjoy..
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