This is going to be the last Valentine’s recipe for this year…I promise! I’m not going to cook anything with a heart shaped on for many, many months!
These cupcakes were delicious tho!
Make them
Make them
Make them!
Ingredients (makes 8 cupcakes):
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2 whole eggs
- 2 – 1/2 cup flour
- 250 ml whole fat milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup chocolate frosting or nutella
In a bowl of your electric mixer combine sugar and butter
and mix on medium until they turn into soft cream. Next up, add one egg at a time mixing well after each one
Add vanilla extract, baking powder and flour altarnating it with milk
and mix until you get a creamy batter
Take off about 1/3 cup of it
and add 1 tbsp of cocoa powder
mix it up
then pour the batter onto a baking pan
and bake at 200 C (400 f) for about 15 min
Remove, let it cool down then using a cookie cutter, cut out small hearts
Pour 1 tbsp of the plain batter into muffin cups
place the chocolate heart right in the center
and cover it with an other tbsp of the plain batter
Bake at 180 C (375 F) for about 20 min. Remove your cupcakes from the oven and let them cool down
Then spread on top of each cupcakes the chocolate frosting (or nutella)
Your Valentine’s heart cupcakes are ready!
Enjoy!
Love
-LittleDani
