Thursday, 25 June 2015

Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting | Cupcake and Cookie

 
It was raining today. Here is one of my favourite recipes! The first time I made these, I burnt them. With a little bit of practice, I'd say I'd improved! Cupcake will be very excited because this is our first cupcake recipe on our blog!
 
You will need...
 
100g Self Raising Flour
100g Butter
100g Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
15g Cocoa Powder
1 tbsp Milk
150g White Chocolate
140g Cream Cheese
Milk Chocolate Curls, To Decorate
 
Method
 
1. Preheat the oven to 180'C.
2. Mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually add the eggs, flour and cocoa powder.
4. Add the milk.
5. Put the mixture into the paper cases.
6. Leave the cakes in the oven for 20 minutes.
7. Leave them to cool for as long as they need.
8. Melt your white chocolate.
9. Mix your cream cheese and white chocolate together.
10. Pipe your icing onto your cupcakes.
11. Sprinkle your chocolate curls over them.
12. Enjoy!
 


 
I hope you enjoyed this recipe because I certainly enjoyed eating them!
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Cupcake and Cookie xxx
 
 

Baking Haul! | Cupcake and Cookie

 
I went on a little haul. Oops! I have been baking for a while but it is only recently that I have really got into it. You don't need a lot of fancy tools to bake but I want to start doing some more difficult recipes so I thought I would buy a few things to help me out.
 
 




 
Cake Decorating Turntable - £13.50
Wilton Food Colouring Paste - £2.80 (each)
Cake Leveller - £3.00
Palette Knife - £10.00
 
(All products were bought from Hobbycraft)
 
 
Thanks for reading and tweet us @cupcakecookie01 about what you've been buying recently!
 
Cupcake and Cookie xxx