Coffee Chocolate Cupcakes

This is my second attempt at baking cupcakes. I have a very long way to go to master the art. As my husband is a coffee lover, I baked this batch. This recipe is very simple and easy to bake; also it can be doubled or tripled to bake more cupcakes.

This recipe makes 7 cupcakes and each cupcake provides approximately 356.5 Calories.

Ingredients:

For the cupcakes:

1 tsp instant coffee granules

30ml warm water

60g butter

80g caster sugar

1 egg

1 tsp cocoa powder

75g All purpose flour (Maida)

40g ground almonds

60g dark chocolate

90ml milk

For the butter cream:

50g butter

100g Icing sugar

1tbsp milk

1tbsp coffee

Method:

For the cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 180°C and prepare cupcake cases on baking tray.
2. Combine instant coffee and water and set aside.
3. Mix together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Add egg and mix until combined.
5. Sieve together flour and cocoa powder and add half to butter mixture.
6. Melt the chocolate and add to the butter mixture.(I melted in the microwave)
7. Add milk, remaining flour/cocoa and coffee to butter mixture and mix well.
8. Divide into cupcake cases and bake in preheated oven for approximately 55 minutes.
9. Leave them to cool on a wire rack and don’t ice with the frosting till cupcakes are absolutely cold.

For the butter cream:

Beat butter until creamy and then fold in icing sugar and coffee, adding a little of each at a time until you reach the required quantity and taste.

Recipe by  Chaya Ranasinghe