Recipe: Delicious Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes

Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes.

You can have Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes

1. It's 220 g of softened butter.
2. Prepare 220 g of sugar.
3. It's 4 of large eggs.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. Prepare 220 g of self-raising flour.
6. You need 60 g of dark chokolate powder.
7. It's of For the buttercream.
8. Prepare 100 g of softened butter.
9. Prepare 200 g of icing sugar.
10. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. Prepare 30 g of dark chocolate powder.
12. You need 3 tbsp of milk.

Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole cupcake tins*2 with paper cases..
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale. Beat in the eggs a little at a time..
3. Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, Take a separate (smaller) mixing bowl, and pour half of your mixture into the first mixing bowl, add the teaspoon of vanilla extract and mix well..
4. In the second mixing bowl, pour another half of your mixture and add the 60g of dark chocolate powder and mix well..
5. Once your two mixtures are ready, spoon a teaspoon of vanilla mixture into each cupcake case, then follow with a spoon of chocolate mixture. Repeat until each cupcake case is half full..
6. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack..
7. For the buttercream icing, beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
8. Then add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk, adding more milk if necessary, until the mixture is smooth and creamy..
9. Take a separate (smaller) mixing bowl, and pour half of your buttercream mixture into the first mixing bowl, add the teaspoon of vanilla extract and mix well..
10. In the second mixing bowl, pour another half of your buttercream mixture and add the 30g of dark chocolate powder and mix well.
11. Spoon the icing into a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe the icing using a spiralling motion onto the cupcakes in a large swirl..