You know a recipe for chocolate cake is going to be good if it contains chocolate, proper chocolate, and not just cocoa powder.
I wanted to make some cupcakes to take to work, I decided to try to make these look like nests with little eggs in... here's how it worked...
The recipe is from the Primrose Bakery book. You all know how to make cake - ingredients go in, get mixed, and put into cases. This recipe was a little different to those I have done before as it called for the egg yolks to be added first with all the usual ingredients. The egg whites are then whisked separately until they form soft peaks. This is then added at the last minute and folded in to make the cupcakes light and airy.
The recipes in the book are for either large or small cupcakes. Large is muffin sized, I still haven't worked out what small is. I put the mixture into standard cupcake cases and it made 24 - it was supposed to make 36 small cupcakes so I guess mine were somewhere in the middle.
I made the chocolate icing from the book again. This was just butter, icing sugar and more melted chocolate. It made quite a soft icing so as I wanted to pipe it I ended up adding more icing sugar.
This is the end result:
Apparently they were rather good.
I wanted to make some cupcakes to take to work, I decided to try to make these look like nests with little eggs in... here's how it worked...
The recipe is from the Primrose Bakery book. You all know how to make cake - ingredients go in, get mixed, and put into cases. This recipe was a little different to those I have done before as it called for the egg yolks to be added first with all the usual ingredients. The egg whites are then whisked separately until they form soft peaks. This is then added at the last minute and folded in to make the cupcakes light and airy.
The recipes in the book are for either large or small cupcakes. Large is muffin sized, I still haven't worked out what small is. I put the mixture into standard cupcake cases and it made 24 - it was supposed to make 36 small cupcakes so I guess mine were somewhere in the middle.
I made the chocolate icing from the book again. This was just butter, icing sugar and more melted chocolate. It made quite a soft icing so as I wanted to pipe it I ended up adding more icing sugar.
This is the end result:
Apparently they were rather good.
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