Chocolate & vanilla cupcakes
Cooking time
Ready in 40 minutesSkill level
EasyServings
Makes 24There's no need to keep your canapés savoury. Treat your guests to these dainty little cakes
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 160
- protein
- 2.1g
- carbs
- 18.6g
- fat
- 9.1g
- saturates
- 5.3g
- fibre
- 0.4g
- sugar
- -
- salt
- 0.15g
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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Method
- 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.
- Spoon into mini muffin tins lined with paper cases, making some chocolate and some vanilla. Bake for 8 minutes. Cool.
- Dip the vanilla cakes in dark chocolate and the chocolate ones in white chocolate. Decorate with buttons or sprinkles.
Recipe from olive magazine, January 2008
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Made these twice now - I made grown up sized muffins so only got 8 out of the mixture, and made them all chocolate (4 tbsps of good quality Green & Blacks cocoa). Added a good splash of milk to loosen up the mixture, and they've come out moist and yummy each time. The first time I ran some fudge pieces through the mixture and the second time I made them in to butterfly cakes with butter cream filling. Baked for 15 - 20 minutes. Perfect, easy recipe!
These are very cute and very tasty. My daughter made them this evening for her Brownies hostess badge. I'm very glad I read previous comments, we copied one of them that said the batters were put together with a marble effect. Only thing is, they took a good while longer than the 8 minutes to cook. In fact I had to reset the timer 3 times! If I could, I would give a 4 star rating but can't seem to highlight the stars at this point.
A great little recipe for great little cakes. I make the mixture twice, one for vanilla and one for chocolate and spoon it into standard sized cases, so it marbles and even my chocolate hating little brother can't get enough of these. Because of the larger size you have to bake them for longer. I'd say for about 15 minutes.