How to: Chocolate Cup Cakes!

Hi everyone, 
My next blog post is going to be a baking one, as I have told you I am doing food tech at school and our current project is afternoon tea, so here is a recipe that we used to make these tasty chocolate cup cakes. 
equipment-
- cup cake cases - baking tray
- mixing bowl - wooden spoon 
- sauce pan - glass bowl
- cooling rack - oven 
- Sive 

ingredients- 
-100g soft butter -150g caster sugar
-2 eggs - 165g plain flour
- 75g coca powder - 50g chocolate chips (dark)
- a dash of milk - a large bar of chocolate (milk chocolate) 
- Daisy wafers for decoration (optional)
- royal icing (optional) - icing sugar (optional) 

method-  
1.)preheat the oven to 180 C and place the cup cake cases in the muffin tin. 
2.) put the sugar and butter in the bowl and mix together. ( if the butter is not soft enough then heat in the microwave for 30 seconds until slightly melted)
3.) Crack the egg into a separate  jug and mix up then add to the mixture. 
4.) Sift in the flour and add bit by bit and fold into the mixture. 
5.) Add in a dash of milk if the mixture is dry. 
6.) Add in the coco powder and the chocolate chips, for the chocolate chips we decided to use dark chocolate, and mix together. 
7.)Spoon the mixture into the cup cake cases and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes. 

For decoration- 
8.) While the cakes are in the oven clean up the kitchen and then fill the sauce pan with boiling water and place a glass bowl on top. Next break pieces of the milk chocolate up and stirring them with the wooden spoon wait for it to melt. (We used just over half of a large bar of milk cooking chocolate.) 
Additional step.) When the cakes were cooking we cut out heart and flower shapes of royal icing so that we could use them for decoration. 
9.) When the cakes are cooked remove them from the oven, you will know when they are done if you stick a skewer into one of the cakes and if it comes out clean it will be done, and then let them cool. 
10.) Next spread the melted chocolate on top of each cake and then place a daisy wafer on each one then sprinkle a little bit of icing sugar on top as well. 
11.) For some of the cakes we cut out some shapes of royal icing and then put that on top  instead of the wafer daisies and again sprinkled icing sugar on top as well as drizzling the leftover melted chocolate over the royal icing. 
12.) Tuck in and enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed this blog post.
Goodbye, Makeup Wonderland x