I am obsessed with all things lemon-y and of course who doesn't like chocolate, so I put the two together and BAM. Chocolate cupcakes with lemon butter cream!
This is such an easy recipe and doesn't require anything too fancy.
Ingredients;
- 200g self raisnig flour
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g butter
- 3 eggs
- 2 bars of plain chocolate (I like to use non-branded or cooking chocolate, using something like Dairy Milk gives a less chocolate-y flavour).
- 150g butter
- 75g icing sugar
- 1 tblspn milk
- The juice of 2 lemons
To make the basic cupcakes is easy. Start by creaming together the butter and sugar. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl, then add them little-by-little along with the flour to the creamy butter-sugar mixture, and mix them all up until it's thick and still creamy! To make them chocolate-y, instead of using cocoa powder, I melt the two bars of chocolate and mix them into the cake mix. Separate the mix into cake cases and bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Whilst they're baking, make the butter cream. Put the butter, icing sugar and milk into a bowl and mix mix mix until you get a cream-y mixture, it will happen quickly! Then add the lemon juice. Add a bit more icing sugar if the mixture is a bit too liquid-y.
Once the cakes are out the oven, leave them to cool completely before topping with your butter cream. Then eat them!
Yum!
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