Description
Delicious, and soooooo cute for Halloween! The easiest chocolate cupcakes with ghoulish ghosts and choc chip eyes.
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ cup cocoa
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- ½ cup warm water
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ¼ cup canola oil
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C and line cupcake trays with cupcake liners.
- Sift cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- Add the egg, water, buttermilk, oil and vanilla extract and mix with an electric beater for +/- 3 minutes.
- Using a 1/3 cup measure, scoop mixture into prepared cupcake trays.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes. To test if ready, prick cupcake with a toothpick and if it comes out clean with no mixture on, then the cupcakes are ready.
- Cool for at least 30 minutes before icing.
WHITE ICING
- Cream together 125g white margarine and 375g icing sugar.
- Add 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1tsp hot water
Place in a piping bag (with a medium plain round piping nozzle) and ice cooled cupcakes. Place two chocolate chips on each cupcake for ghost eyesJ