Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
Easy recipe for zesty chocolate orange cupcakes. Topped off with chocolate frosting and orange peel. The perfect cake for chocolate orange lovers!
Ingredients
Ingredients for Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
- ½ cup orange juice fresh, not from concentrate
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- ½ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoon unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- ½ cup superfine granulated sugar or caster sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1½ cups all purpose flour or plain flour
- 5 tablespoon cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Ingredients for Ganache Frosting
- 12 oz dark chocolate chips or finely chopped solid chocolate
- 1½ cups heavy cream or double cream
- candied citrus peel optional decoration
Instructions
Instructions for Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
- Preheat you oven to 350°F (175C/155C Fan) and line a 12-hole cupcake pan.
- Place the orange juice, milk and vanilla extract in a small jug and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Then add the orange juice mixture and orange zest. Beating to blend together.
- Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt into the mixing bowl and stir thoroughly with a spatula until just combined. Be sure there are no remaining pockets of flour.
- Spoon out into prepared cupcake tray and bake in the centre of the preheated oven for about 22 minutes - start checking around 20 minutes and remove once a skewer inserted in the centre of one of the middle cupcakes comes out clean.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack and frost with ganache or chocolate buttercream and top with citrus peel.
Instructions for Ganache Frosting
- To make ganache for these cupcakes, simply heat the cream in a saucepan over a medium heat until simmering. Allow to simmer for a couple of minutes (but do not bring to a boil) and then pour over the chocolate chips in a heat proof bowl. Let this sit for about 2 minutes to begin melted and then stir until smooth.
- Allow to cool for about half an hour until the consistency has thickened to a more stable, but pipe-able consistency.
Nutrition
Calories: 413kcalCarbohydrates: 46gProtein: 5.9gFat: 25.8gSaturated Fat: 15.8gCholesterol: 84mgSodium: 218mgPotassium: 139mgFiber: 1.2gSugar: 27.9gCalcium: 46mgIron: 2mg
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