Chocolate orange cup cakes
Ingredients
- Flour 1 cup
- Baking soda ½ tsp heaped
- Salt ½ tsp
- Baking powder 1/8th tsp
- Hot water ½ cup
- Coco 3 tbsp
- Butter 4 ounces
- Sugar ¾ cup
- Egg 1
- Vanilla ½ tsp heaped
- Orange peel 1 tbsp
- Chocolate orange frosting
- Butter softened 3 ounces heaped
- Chocolate melted 50 gm
- Icing sugar 1 ½ cup sieved
- Vanilla ½ tsp
- Orange juice 2 tbsp
- Orange slices for garnish
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degree C, place cup cakes liners in cup cake tray, sieve together flour, baking powder and baking soda, add in salt, keep aside, mix hot water and coco until dissolved, beat butter for 30 seconds, gradually add 1 ounce sugar at a time add egg and vanilla, on low speed alternating with flour, then coco mixture, beating until just blended, divide batter into cup cake tray, bake for 20 minutes, remove on cooling rack to cool.
Method for icing
- Beat butter, melted chocolate add in icing sugar with vanilla and orange juice 1 tsp at a time until icing thick and spreadable, frost cup cake, garnish with orange candy.
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