Chocolate cupcakes with a creamy chocolate frosting

Who doesn't love cupcakes??? It is probably hard to find someone who wouldn't like to try one! We always think they may be difficult do bake but I am going to give you a very easy recipe!


Ingredients:

• 1 & 1/2 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 3 spoons of cocoa
• 200 g dark chocolate (doesn’t have to be 70%)
• 1 tea spoon of baking powder
• 1/3 tea spoon of salt
• 1/2 cup of natural yogurt
• 1/3 olive oil
• 1 package of vanilla sugar
• 1 egg
• If you like you can add as well a spoon of rum :)

For the frosting:

• 200 g dark chocolate
• 150 g creamy cheese (can be ricotta, mascarpone or any other you like)
• 3 spoons of powder sugar
• 3 spoons of nutella (optional)

Preparation

To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 180°C and place 18 paper cases into muffin tins. 

Melt the chocolate and leave to cool down. In a mixing bowl beat the butter with the sugar. Beat in the egg, add olive oil, yogurt, chocolate an mix all together. Add the flour and mix until combined. The good thing about all kind of muffins is that we don’t have to be very precise in steering, the mixture doesn’t have to be perfectly pale. Use tablespoons to evenly divide the mixture between the paper cases. Remember to fill the tins only 2/3 of their height.

Put the muffins into the oven and bake 25 minutes. 

For the frosting. Again melt the chocolate and leave it until it cools down a bit. In a mixing bowl beat together all the ingredients until you get a creamy mixture. Put the creamy frosting to the fridge and chill until firm enough to spread over the tops of the cupcakes. Fill the piping bag with the mixture and pipe a swirl onto each cupcake.