Cupcakes!

Hi! I made some lovely cupcakes today, that tasted amazing and I thought I would share the recipe with you.

What you'll need:

• 150g dark chocolate, broken into squares
• 150g butter, plus 100g for the butter icing
• 150g self-raising flour
• 4 level tsp cocoa powder, plus 50g for the icing
• 200g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 4 tbsp milk, plus 4 tbsp for the icing
• 200g icing sugar

First you preheat the oven to 140C Fan and line 4 bun tins with 16 paper cupcake cases.

Then you put the chocolate in a large heatproof bowl with 150g butter. Stand over a pan of simmering water, making sure the bowl doesn't touch the water. Leave until just melted, stirring occasionally. Remove the bowl from the pan and cool for 10 minutes.

Sift together the flour and cocoa and stir in the sugar.

 Then add it to the chocolate with the eggs and 4 tbsp of milk. Stir until evenly mixed.

 Divide between the cake cases and bake for about 20 minutes and when they're done let them cool down before putting icing on them.

For the icing, beat 100g butter, the icing sugar, and the 50g of cocoa powder together until light and creamy.

Then pipe the icing on to the cupcakes, and voila! You have some lovely and very tasty cupcakes. xxx

(and yes there is missing a cupcake because me and my brother couldn't help ourselves and had to try one)