Simple Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients

• ¾ cup plain flour
• ¼ cup cocoa
• ½ cup caster sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon vanilla or vanilla essence
• 80 g butter
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup milk

• Method

  1. Preheat oven to 160C. Prepare 12 hole muffin tray or 24 hole mini muffin tray.
  2. Sift all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl.
  3. Make a small well in the middle of the bowl and then add remaining ingredients.
  4. Beat on low speed with electric mixer until just combined.
  5. Scrape down sides of bowl and beat on medium speed for a further two minutes.
  6. Place tablespoons of the mixture into 12 hole muffin tray until holes are half full. Heaped teaspoon of mixture for mini muffins.
  7. Place tray into oven for 15-18 minutes for 12 hole muffin pan or 10-12 minutes for mini muffin pan.
  8. Stand for 5 minutes and then turn out onto wire rack to cool.
  9. Iced or leave plain if preferred.

  Recipe notes

  If you are diabetic you can replace the caster sugar with sugar substitute.