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Chocolate Malt Spider Cupcakes
- PREP TIME
15 min - COOK TIME
14 min - READY TIME
29 min - SERVINGS
24
INGREDIENTS
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- ¼ cup malt powder
- ¼ cup boiling water
- ½ cup milk
- ¾ tsp vanilla paste
- 60g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 cup soft brown sugar
- 1/3 cup caster sugar
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup plain flour
- 2/3 tsp bi-carbonate soda
ICING
- 260g unsalted butter, softened
- 460g icing sugar, sifted
- 60ml milk
SPIDER WEBS
- 100g dark chocolate buttons
DIRECTIONS
- Pre heat oven to 170 C.
- Place mini cupcake papers into a mini cupcake baking tray and lightly spray with cooking spray.
- Mix together the cocoa, water, milk and vanilla paste and set aside.
- Place your butter, brown sugar and caster sugar into the mixing bowl of the KAMBROOK bench mixer and mix until fluffy.
- Combine the egg and oil and then slowly pour into the butter and sugar mix until incorporated.
- Sift the flour and bi-carbonate soda together.
- Add the cocoa and flour mixes alternatively (twice) into the butter and egg mix and combine until combined.
- Divide mixture into your mini cupcake papers and bake in the oven for 14 minutes or until cupcake springs back when touched lightly.
- When cooked, place your cupcakes onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.
TO M AK E THE ICING
- In the KAMBROOK bench mixer, place the icing sugar, butter and milk into the bowl and beat until fluffy.
- Add your red and yellow food colouring until your desired orange colour is reached. When colouring the icing, add one drop at a time and mix between drops.
- Place into a piping bag and pipe onto your cupcakes.
CHOCOLATE SPIDER WEBS
- Draw a spider web template in dark marker and place a piece of greaseproof paper over the top. This will help you to create a uniformed spider web.
- Melt dark chocolate in the microwave, 20 seconds at a time, and place into a small plastic zip lock bag and cut a tiny bit off one corner and use this as your piping bag.
- Pipe the chocolate onto the greaseproof paper tracing the spider web template that you have drawn.
- Leave the spider webs to set in the refrigerator.
- When the spider webs have set, place your spider web onto the top of the icing.
- Place the cupcakes onto desired platter and serve.
This recipe was developed using a Kambrook Appliance.
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