Pascall ChocTime Chocolate Cupcakes

If you’re a lover of chocolate you will love these cupcakes with a double treat of chocolate, i.e. chocolate inside the cupcakes and as a topping too! You can make these to spoil yourself or your loved one(s). They’ll be great for dessert, as a lunch box idea or just an anytime treat. Let’s get right to it then.

Equipment

• Mixing bowl
• Measuring cups
• Measuring jug
• Whisk
• Measuring spoon
• Muffin tray
• Cupcake liners

Instructions

1. Get your ingredients together. These include; 12 mini Pascall ChocTime chocolates
   1 3/4 cup castor sugar
   2 cups self-raising flour
   1 tsp baking powder
   1/4 tsp baking soda
   Pinch of salt
   1/4 cup cocoa powder
   2 eggs
   1/2 cup cooking oil
   1 1/2 cup milk
   1 tsp vanilla essence
   50 g Pascall Milk Chocolate, grated
   Strawberries for decoration
2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line your muffin tray with the cupcake liners and set aside.
3. Put sugar into a bowl. Sift flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into the same bowl that has sugar.
4. Whisk until a uniform colour is achieved. Make a well in the middle and set aside.
5. In the measuring jug, add the eggs, milk, oil and essence. Beat until combined.
6. Take set aside bowl with flour and pour the egg, oil and milk mixture into the bowl. Mix gently until just combined, taking care not to over-mix as this will cause your cupcakes to have a tough texture. Add the grated chocolate and mix again until just incorporated.
7. Spoon the batter into the cupcake liners, filling each one up 3/4 full. Bake in preheat oven for 15 min.
8. Allow the cupcakes to cool down completely before decorating. Here I used fresh cream frosting. To make your fresh cream frosting click here.
9. Pipe each cupcake with the fresh cream. Top each one with a Pascall ChocTime chocolate. Finish off with a strawberry and some sprinkles (I used chocolate vermicelli)  if you like. Enjoy!