Chocolate cupcakes

AUTHOR
Lenora Decker
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 125 g Dark chocolate
  • 125 g Butter
  • 225 g Sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 160 g Flour
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 250 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 100 g Icing sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp colourful sugar pearls
  • 12 Paper baking cups

Directions

  1. 1

    Roughly chop the chocolate. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat while stirring, remove from the heat and pour into a mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt, eggs, flour and baking powder.

  2. 2

    Mix to a smooth dough with the whisk of the hand mixer.

  3. 3

    Line recesses of a muffin tray (12 recesses) with paper baking cups. Pour in the dough and bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 20 minutes.

  4. 4

    Take the muffins out of the oven and let them cool down on a cake rack.

  5. 5

    Cream cream cheese, icing sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Pour into a piping bag with a large star-shaped spout, sprinkle a large tuff on each muffin and chill until serving.

  6. 6

    Before serving, decorate with sugar beads and possibly candles.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
370 kcal
CARBS
42 g
FATS
20 g
PROTEINS
6 g