Cupcakes with chocolate

Last weekend I did again some baking, oh the weekends are fantastic for those things ;-) On Sunday I made two batches of kruidnoten, you can read how to make them in my previous post. But on Saturday I made cupcakes with chocolate for all tastes, just mixing things here and there, with ingredients I had at home, they were absolutely delicious!

To make 12 cupcakes you need:

• 200 gr. flour
• 220 gr. caster sugar
• 7 gr. baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 180 ml. milk
• 60 ml. sunflower oil
• 1 table spoon vanilla extract
• About 70 gr. pure chocolate (chopped)

Sieve the flour in a bowl and mix with all the dry ingredients, except the chocolate.In another bowl mix the egg, milk, oil and vanilla. Then put all ingredients into one and mix again, only this time with a mixer, the last 10 seconds use the mixer at maximum speed. At last scoop the chopped chocolate and divide the dough into the cupcakes cases. Bake in a 180 degrees preheated oven for about 25 minutes, until gold.
For the topping I had as ingredients

• 150 gr. butter at room temperature
• 140 gr. icing sugar
• 10 gr. cacao powder
• Some chopped white chocolate

Put the butter, icing sugar and cacao in a bowl and mix, with the mixer, until soft and creamy. Then pipe the butter cream on top of the cupcakes, sprinkle with the white chocolate.

Enjoy with a capuccino or a hot chocolate, kids will love it!