Makes: 12 cupcakes
Oven temperature: 180 deg C
Ingredients:
For the cupcake:
- 2 eggs
- 250ml sugar
- 250ml flour
- 30ml cocoa powder
- 5ml baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 125ml milk
- 100ml oil
- 5ml vanilla essence
- 100ml Staffords Choc Chips
- Truffles
- 200ml Staffords Dark Choc Disks
- 100ml cream
- 80ml cake crumbs
- 80ml coconut
- Cocoa powder for rolling
- 80ml cream
Method:
- Beat the eggs and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt, then add the milk oil and vanilla essence. Mix together until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips
- Pour the batter into a lined muffin tray. Bake in a preheated oven of 180 c for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they are cooked through. Allow to cool
- Heat the cream in a small pot until hot but not boiling, remove from the heat, add the chocolate and allow it to melt into the cream, add the cake crumbs and enough coconut to form small balls, roll the balls and then coat in cocoa.
- For the icing, heat the cream, until hot but not boiling, remove from the heat and add the chocolate, allow it to melt into the cream, let it cool to firm up and use it to ice the cupcakes. Top the cupcake with the truffles and chocolate chips.