Chocolate cupcakes

Name: Chocolate cupcakes
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 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

AUTHOR
Lenora Decker

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

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
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
Mix to a smooth dough with the whisk of the hand mixer.
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
Take the muffins out of the oven and let them cool down on a cake rack.
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
Before serving, decorate with sugar beads and possibly candles.