As the owner of several bras I like chocolate. I also like cake. Especially tiny cakes that fit in my mouth whole. So the word ‘chocolate’ coupled with ‘cupcakes’ gets my attention pretty well.
The BBC food website churned up a recipe for some easy looking chocolate cakes which handily only needed ingredients I already had lying around.
These were:
1 egg
50g of softened, unsalted butter
8 tablespoons of milk
150g of caster sugar
125g of plain flour
25g of cocoa powder
1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
After you’ve stuck the oven on at 180°c (gas mark 4) sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together into a big bowl. In goes the butter and the sugar and then you beat this until you’re arm falls off or everything is well combined, whatever happens first. If it’s the former I’d like to inform you all that anything tried off this blog is done at the reader’s own risk.
Whisk in the egg and a couple of spoonfuls of the milk. Once that’s all mixed together add in another couple of tablespoons and whisk again. Keep this up until all the milk is in. I used skimmed but I think this left the finished product a bit dry so use semi at least. Your batter should be smooth and thick by this point. Mine was a bit lumpy but I’m not claiming to be Mr Kipling.
Spoon the mixture into some cupcake cases – probably around a tablespoon and a half or so. Too much and they’ll look like melted mini Quasimodos like my first batch.
These go into the oven for around 15 to 20 minutes and are done when they’re spongy to the touch or pass the skewer test (stick one in and it comes out clean: cooked cake).
Leave these to cool and then eat six in quick succession until you realise you need a lie-down.
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