We love moist cakes and when my elder boy asked me to bake cupcakes for him to bring to school. I thought I might as well try to improvise this moist chocolate cake which I bake occasionally.
And since we were learning about owls and reading a storybook on owls. We decided to use the idea one homeschooling mum here sharing about making owl cupcakes and owl cookies. I just try out the owl cupcakes.
Here’s the recipe for the cupcakes without frosting and designs on them,
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups Raw sugar
1 3/4 cups Self-raising flour
3/4 cup Dutch cocoa powder
2 Eggs
1/4 tsp Salt
1/3 cup Canola Oil
1 cup Milk
2 tsp Vanilla essence
1 tbsp Coffee mixed with 1 cup of boiling water.
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celius.
2. Mix all ingredient except the coffee mixture into a mixing bowl. Combine well.
3. Gradually add in the coffee while continuing mixing till mixture is smooth and running.
4. Scoop into cup till 75% full.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes. Check with a skewer, skewer should come out clean.
Chocolate Frosting Cream Ingredients:
125g Butter (room temperature)
125g Icing Sugar
115g Dark Bitter Chocolate
2 tbsp Dutch cocoa powder
Method:
1. Double-boil chocolate to melt and let it cool.
2. Beat the butter with icing sugare till fluffy. Then add in the cocoa powder and melted chocolate, beat till well mixed and very fluffy. And it is ready to use.
3. You can either use a spoon to spread or use a piping bag. I only make a couple of cupcakes so too lazy to pipe them, I just spoon the frosting onto the cake.
Sugar Paste Ingredient:
3 tbsp Icing sugar
1 tbsp Water
Method:
1. Add water slowly to icing sugar and stir till mixture is thick and sticky.
How to assemble the owl cupcakes:
Ingredients:
Chocolate Frosting Cream
Sugar paste (add as glue to paste M&M to the Oreo Cookies with cream side)
Oreo Cookies (Depending on how many you are making- 2 cream side as a pair of eyes for a cupcake, one no cream side for wings)
M&M chocolate
Method:
1. Remove the oreo cookies carefully by using a butter-spread knife to help you separate them.
2. Cut the other part of the Oreo Cookie without cream into half.
3. Spread the cream on the cupcake either using spoon or piping.
4. Place the two Oreo Cookies with cream onto the cupcake.
5. Place the half pieces of Oreo Cookies under the ones with cream after a part spreadout.
6. Spread the sugar paste on the M&M chocolates and then paste onto the Oreo Cookies with cream.
7. Spread some Chocolate frosting cream onto the wing of the owl. And everything is done.
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