Aromatic chocolate cupcakes

Name: Aromatic chocolate cupcakes
Ingredients: 200 g dark muscovado sugar; 1 large egg, beaten; 110 g unsalted butter; 100 g plain flour; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate soda; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; 50 g dark chocolate, melted and cooled a little; 200 ml double cream; 75 g milk chocolate; 175 g dark chocolate; 125 ml boiling water; 12 gold Smarties, gold leaf or other decorations of your choice; 12 gold Smarties, gold leaf or other decorations of your choice

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

I sometimes make these aromatic chocolate cupcakes to take as a present if we’re going away for the weekend: they look so wonderful studded with gold Smarties, though actually a plain, shiny-brown Minstrel would have a certain chic allure.

Ingredients

For the cakes

110 g unsalted butter
200 g dark muscovado sugar
1

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

Using the method above, make the batter and fill the 12 muffin paper cases in the muffin tin. Bake for 30 minutes