Chocolate Cupcake Recipe!

Hello everyone, I hope your having a good start to the year. Today I have for you a recipe for chocolate cupcakes, and these are my absolute favourite. This was my Great Nan's recipe, and my Nan loved it, and my mum loved it and now me and my sister love it.

I hope you enjoy this recipe, and you can send me some picture through my twitter, and my twitter and Instagram names will be left below. Enjoy!

Ingredients: To make 12 cupcakes.

4 ounces margarine

5oz caster sugar

4 ounces self raising flour

2 eggs

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1 tbsp milk

To make icing- 

1 ounce of cocoa powder

250g icing sugar

55g margarine

1 tbsp of boiling water

Method:

1.  Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

2. Cream together the butter and sugar, until light and fluffy.

3. Add the eggs, milk and flour to make a cake batter.

4. Then add the cocoa powder.

5. After this you put the cake batter into the cupcake cases, and put into the oven for 20-25 minutes. If they need to, put them in the oven for a bit longer. 

6. While they are in the oven make the icing, you cream together the icing sugar and margarine.

7. After that you add the cocoa powder and the hot water.

8. If the icing is too runny add icing sugar, if the icing is quit stiff and a bit of water or milk.

9. Take the cakes out of the oven and let them cool for 20 minutes

9. Put the icing onto the cakes, thick or thin, that is your choice. For decoration I put on 3 maltesers.

That is the end of this recipe and I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know if you like them!

Comment down below what recipes you might want me to make!
Bye!x

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