You can then eat all the leftover cupcake cores – perks of being the baker!! It also gives you a great chance to test your sponge before you share the cupcakes out! □ Fill the cupcake holes with enough jam so that it is level with the top of the cupcake. I do this with an apple corer for ease, but you can also just cut a hole with a sharp knife. Once the cupcakes are baked and completely cooled, you can begin putting it all together.įirstly the cupcakes need to be cored so you can add the cherry jam. Then you can pour into the cupcake cases from that! Then you’re ready to pour the mixture into cupcake cases and bake! The mixture is quite thin, so I find it easiest to pour the whole thing into a jug first. Try not to overmix here, as the more you mix the more you’ll activate the gluten in the flour which can result in a dense chewy sponge! Between each stage the mixture should be whisked until it’s just combined. So half dry, half buttermilk, half dry and then the final half of buttermilk. The final step is to add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk into the wet ingredients in stages. The great thing about this cupcake recipe is you can do it by hand! You don’t need to get a hand-mixer or stand-mixer out – which makes washing up a lottt easier! The wet ingredients then need to be whisked together until well combined and the mixture is slightly paler in colour. You can use any neutral oil here, so vegetable, sunflower, coconut etc. Then in another bowl add the eggs, caster sugar, brown sugar, oil and vanilla extract. The milk and lemon juice only needs to sit for 5-10 minutes before it’s ready, so while it’s curdling you can prep the remaining ingredients.Īll the dry ingredients should be sifted into a bowl together – that’s plain flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and a little salt. This slightly curdles and thickens the milk, which gives our cupcakes a light and moist texture. You can do this by combining milk with an acid – in this case, lemon juice. The first step in making these chocolate cupcakes is to create your own ‘buttermilk’. Aside from looking so cute, it also creates an excellent makeshift spoon to eat the whipped cream off the top! □Ĭupcakes are so easy to make but still look so pretty and impressive! They’re the perfect bake for a beginner, or if you just need to whip up a dessert quickly!! The chocolate sponge cools really quickly too, so you don’t have to wait too long before assembling and eating!! Making the cupcakes
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