Mini Chocolate Cup Cakes

I think I am in the mood to bake cupcakes lately. Today, I tried out baking chocolate cupcakes... the mini version. The mini chocolate cupcakes are easy to make. I got the recipe from googling the Internet. I don't make a lot. Total cupcakes I made were 18 mini-sized cupcakes and I put aside some of the batter to make another 9 medium-sized cupcakes.





















Here are the ingredients that I used:

170 g self-raising flour
110 g butter
100 g sugar
50 g cocoa powder
2 eggs
240 ml boiling water
2 tsp vanilla essence


Methods:

1. Stir the boiling water and cocoa powder until smooth. Let it cool to room temperature.
2. Pre-heat oven to 190 degree for 15 minutes.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Then, add egg one at a time, beating until smooth.
5. Add in vanilla essence.
6. Add in flour and mix well.
7. Then, add in the cooled cocoa powder mixture, stir until smooth.
8. Line the paper cups on the mini cupcakes tray.
9. Fill in each cup with the batter to about 3/4 full.
10. Bake at 190 degree for about 20 minutes (for the mini-sized cupcakes and 25 minutes for the medium-sized cupcakes).
11. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
12. Wait until they are completely cool and decorate with frosting if you like. Here, I used the simple butter icing which is very easy to make.

Ingredients for the icing:
120 g butter
120 g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence


Methods:

1. Beat the butter until smooth and creamy with a hand mixer.
2. Then add in the icing sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
3. Add in vanilla essence and beat well.
4. Mix until it is smooth.

I decorated come of the cup cakes with the icing, while leaving some of them original without icing.