Chocolate & vanilla cup cakes

Chocolate & vanilla cup cakes

There's no need to keep your canapés savoury. Treat your guests to these dainty little cakes

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 24

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 40 minutes

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Cream the butter and sugar together, then beat in the eggs and flour. Divide the mix into 2 and add the cocoa to one half and the vanilla to the other. Add a drop of milk to the chocolate mix if it is too stiff.
  2. Spoon into mini muffin tins lined with paper cases, making some chocolate and some vanilla. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool.
  3. Dip the vanilla cakes in dark chocolate and the chocolate ones in white chocolate. Decorate with buttons or sprinkles.

Per serving

160 kcalories, protein 2.1g, carbohydrate 18.6g, fat 9.1 g, saturated fat 5.3g, fibre 0.4g, salt 0.15 g

Recipe from olive magazine, January 2008.

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  • 02 January 2008

    Dina rated this recipe

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  • 04 January 2008

    bexpayne rated and commented on this recipe

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    My 8-year old loved making these for her friends - we marbled the vanilla and chocolate cake batter to make swirly cakes so the girls didn't have to choose (something they find very hard to do....)

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  • 18 January 2008

    favourites rated and commented on this recipe

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    I made these for my mum's birthday and they went down a treat!

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  • 02 February 2008

    eldriva rated and commented on this recipe

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    Scrummy cakes. Easy recipe well worth making, lovely texture especially when blending both together .

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  • 14 February 2008

    GraceW rated and commented on this recipe

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    I also swirled the two mixes together to give a marbled effect and it looked really good. Tasted even better. As it was Valentines, I made contrasting hearts from the chocolate as decoration. My husband loved them.

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  • 05 March 2008

    MISCHEF rated and commented on this recipe

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    I made the vanilla ones only for my Nieces' 1st birthday… I also made a butter icing for the topping with a little food colouring... Naughty but very very nice!

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  • 23 March 2008

    Glenys rated and commented on this recipe

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    Really easy to follow recipe. I made these Cup Cake size - only got half the amount, but twice the delight in each cake!

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  • 08 April 2008

    dillon rated and commented on this recipe

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    Made these cakes soooo many times now, YUMMY!

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  • 30 May 2008

    KateWhite rated and commented on this recipe

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    Brilliant. Made these twice this week. Kids and husband loved them, they were easy and looked very impressive.

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  • 06 November 2008

    lexi commented on this recipe

    These are so easy to make!! I made a batch for kids/teenagers for a family meal as the main dessert I made was a blueberry cake which is often a bit rich for kids and needed an alternative. The following day I was due at a one years old birthday bbq and before we left I suddenly decided to make some to take and they were ready to go within half an hour!! Delicious and good for adults too!!

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  • 18 November 2008

    somesaycocoa rated and commented on this recipe

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    This is a beautifully simple recipe. My little girl got such a kick out of 'choccie' buns with more 'choccie' on top :-)

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 24

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 100g butter , at room temperature
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • a few drops vanilla essence
  • 200g white chocolate , melted
  • 200g dark chocolate , melted
  • silver balls , to decorate
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Per serving

160 kcalories, protein 2.1g, carbohydrate 18.6g, fat 9.1 g, saturated fat 5.3g, fibre 0.4g, salt 0.15 g

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