Chocolate orange cupcakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Plus cooling time
- Easy
- Serves 12
Ingredients
- 100g butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 50g dark chocolate
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 125g self-raising flour
FOR DECORATION
- 100g butter
- 350g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp orange flavouring (optional)
- Orange food colouring (optional)
- Chocolate sprinkles (optional)
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to Gas mark 4/170C.
- STEP 2Beat the sugar and butter until creamy, then add in the chocolate melted. Add the orange zest and juice with the cocoa powder afterwards.
- STEP 3Beat in the eggs. Fold in the flour.
- STEP 4Bake in the oven for 15-25 mins or until dark brown.
- STEP 5While cakes are cooling, mix the butter, icing sugar, colouring and flavouring in a bowl and put in a piping pipe with a star shaped nozzle. Sprinkle with sprinkles and enjoy!
