Easiest Way to Make Delicious Chocolate Cup Cakes

Chocolate Cup Cakes.

You can have Chocolate Cup Cakes using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cup Cakes

1. Prepare 75 grams of Unsalted Butter.
2. It's 150 grams of Caster Sugar.
3. You need 2 medium of Eggs.
4. It's 25 grams of Self-raising flour.
5. Prepare 125 grams of Plain flour.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of Bicarb of Soda.
7. Prepare 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
8. It's 150 ml of Buttermilk or Whole Milk.
9. You need 25 grams of Cocoa Powder.
10. Prepare 1 of For Topping.
11. You need 125 grams of Unsalted Butter.
12. It's 350 grams of Icing Sugar.
13. Prepare 2 tbsp of Cocoa Powder.
14. It's 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.

Chocolate Cup Cakes directions

1. Preheat oven to 190°c (170°c fan oven) then line cup cake tray..
2. Beat sugar and butter together until pale and creamy. Whisk in eggs until just combined. Add flour, bicarb of soda, vanilla and buttermilk until combined..
3. Add cocoa powder and whisk. Divide between paper cases. Bake for 20 mins, leave to cool in tin for 5 mins then transfer to wire rack to cool..
4. For topping put butter in bowl and add icing sugar, vanilla and cocoa powder with 2 tbsp of boiling water and mix together until light and fluffy..
5. Insert star nozzle into a piping bag and swirl ontop of each cake..
6. Will keep for up to 5 days in an airtight container..