Chocolate Butterfly Cakes

Name: Chocolate Butterfly Cakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 200 g/7 oz/1½ cups self-raising flour; 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 tbsp milk; 1 recipe quantity Chocolate Chantilly Cream; icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted, for dusting; 125 g/4½ oz/½ cup butter, softened; 125 g/4½ oz/½ cup plus 2 tbsp caster (granulated) sugar

Preparation info

Makes:
12
cakes

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Everybody Loves Chocolate

By Jennifer Donovan

Published 2024

About

Ingredients

125 g/4½ oz/½ cup butter, softened
125

Oceania
Australia
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Place 12 cupcake cases into a 12-hole muffin pan.
In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy using an electric hand mixer, then gradually beat in the eggs and vanilla extract until