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Monday, October 28, 2013

Chocolate cup cakes

Ingredients
For Cake 
All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 1/4cup 
Cocoa Powder - 1/4cup 
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1/2 cup (50 gms)
Eggs - 3
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Baking powder -1/4 spoon 
Baking soda little less then baking powder 
Nutrella (optional )
Method 

For the cake
1. Sieve together the all purpose flour (maida) and cocoa powder ,baking powder , baking soda in  a bowl.
2. Melt the butter in the microwave .
3. Beat the eggs in a bowl using a hand blender until it becomes very creamy and frothy.
4. Mix together all the wet ingredients (melted butter, sugar, vanilla essence) along with the beaten eggs.
5. Finally fold in the dry ingredients (flour + cocoa) with the wet ingredients.
6. Mix everything nicely with a wooden spoon until you get a smooth batter.
7. Grease a cup cake mould with butter and dust some flour and cocoa powder on it and keep it ready.
8. Pour the cake batter into the cup cake mould and bake it in a oven preheated to 350 degree F (180 C) for about 10 minutes.( it's better to check after 5 min sometime it takes less time to bake )
9. Check if the cake is done by inserting a toothpick in the middle of the cake. It should come out clean.
10.Switch off the oven and cool the cake before applying the syrup and frosting.
Once it cools down apply nuterella at top and some cherries or chocolate chips 

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