Exceptional EAHere we have another Mary Berry recipe from England’s Sherri Eckworth. This one makes two dozen cupcakes, with the photo below provided by Sherri.
Ingredients – Cupcakes
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40g cocoa powder
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4 tbsp boiling water
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3 eggs
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175g baking margarine
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175g caster sugar
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115g self raising flour
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1 tsp baking powder
Ingredients – Icing
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60g butter
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30g cocoa powder
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3 tbsp milk
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250g icing sugar
Preparation
Line 2 x 12 hole muffin tins (or 1 and cook twice) with paper cases. Stir the cocoa powder in a bowl, pour in the boiling water and mix to a thick paste. Once that’s done, add the remaining cake ingredients and whisk together – I use an electric hand whisk which works really quickly.
Then spoon the mix into the 24 cases. Bake at 200 (180 fan) Gas 6 for about 10 mins. They should be springy to the touch when done. Cool on a wire rack.
To make the icing, melt the butter then pour it in a bowl. Add the cocoa powder and mix together. Stir in the milk and then the icing sugar a little a time – this can be very messy! Once it’s lovely, glossy and spreadable and the cakes are cooled, spread a little (or a lot!) over each one.
Absolutely yummy and very easy indeed!
