Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

Chocolate is the all time favourite of almost everybody. So, when it comes down to bridal shower dessert, chocolate strikes in the mind. You can order the dessert or you can make it at home. Are you planning to cook the dessert for a bridal shower at home on your own? Choc iced cupcakes is the best dessert you can make of chocolate at home.

This is because almost everyone loves chocolate and cake combination so, guests will enjoy this dish. One more reason to select this dish as dessert is that it is the easiest thing to prepare as dessert. In addition to this it takes less time to prepare unlike other desserts. If the bride has sweet tooth and would love to have sweet anytime, you can even serve these as appetizers.

If you have decided to prepare the choc iced cupcakes for bridal shower you need to make a checklist of ingredients required. However, before making checklist you need to decide whether you want to make cupcakes with only icing or you want to make the cupcakes using flour. In addition to this if you want to make the cup cakes with flour and icing both then you need to determine whether you want to make the flour cupcakes with chocolate or any other flavour. Once you are done with your decision you can make the checklist of the ingredients required and their quantities. The choc iced cupcakes typically require all purpose flour, baking powder, superfine sugar, softened unsalted butter, eggs, cocoa powder, or vanilla essence or any other flavour, boiling water, semi-sweet chocolate, and paper baking cups.

Now, we will guide you on how to make the choc iced cupcakes. First of all you need to add the one tablespoon of cocoa powder to one tablespoon of boiling water. Then let it cool for some time. Let the oven preheat to 325°F whilst you prepare the other ingredients.

Add 1 cup (4 oz) flour and one teaspoon baking powder together. Add ½ cup butter, ½ cup sugar, and 2 eggs together in a mixer one by one respectively to beat it. Then add mixture of flour and baking powder to it and beat the mixture well till you get the soft mixture without lumps. Then you need to add the mixture of cocoa powder and water and whisk the mixture till you get the nice smooth texture. If you do not want chocolate in that you can add vanilla essence. Then fill the paper baking cups with this mixture. Remember that you need to fill these cups only up to 2/3 part. This is because the mixture is supposed to rise after cooking. Then pop these paper baking cups in to the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.

In the meantime, you can work on your icing. Put the heatproof bowl in the simmering water and put the 6oz semi sweet chocolate in it and let it melt. Then let it cool to room temperature. Now put the unsalted butter in the mixer and beat it then add the melted semi sweet chocolate to it and beat it together till it gets silky texture. Meanwhile, you cupcakes in oven would be ready. Spread this icing on your cupcakes and your choc iced cupcakes are ready. Whilst preparing choc iced cup cakes make sure that the size of each cup cake is same.

Chocolates are quite a delicacy and taste good in almost any form. You could try making this choc iced cake in a different manner or you could try adding some other ingredient apart from chocolate. For instance, you can add roasted almonds, walnuts, fresh strawberries, mint, etc. All or any of these ingredients can be added to the batter before baking. It would taste wonderful. When the cupcake is ready these ingredients would appear almost inserted within the cup cake with some chocolate sauce poured on it. For the icing part, you can try other flavors too. In fact, you can arrange pieces of these dry fruits or strawberries on the top so that your choco iced cup cake would look nicely decorated and also taste good.