Ingredients and method to make chocolate cupcakes with ganache (Cake adapted from this recipe)
For the cake
Dry ingredients
I cup unbleached all purpose flour ( maida)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
A pinch of salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
Wet ingredients
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
1/2 cup plain yogurt + 1/2 cup water whisked together or 1 cup buttermilk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
For the chocolate ganache ( see notes, ganache adapted from this recipe)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Pre heat oven @ 350 deg F. Pre line a muffin pans with muffin liners and keep aside.
In a large bowl, sift all the dry ingredients twice. Make a well in the center and keep aside.
It you are using yogurt, whisk together yogurt and water and keep aside.
Whisk together sugar and oil. Then add buttermilk to it and mix well.
Pour
this mixture in well in the center of the dry ingredients and mix
slowly until the wet and dry and fully mixed. Add vanilla extract and
semi sweet chocolate chips and mix gently.
Spoon
the mixture into muffin pans until 3/4th full. Place in the oven and
bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until toothpick / cake tester inserted in
center comes out clean. I made it as mini cupcakes, if you make these as
regular sized cupcakes it might take a min or two more, do check if
done from around the 15th minute. I used a mini muffin tray and it yielded me about 24 mini cup cakes + 1 regular sized one, you could easily make this in a regular muffin tray as well.
For the ganache
Heat
cream on the stove top or the microwave until it is scalding hot. Place
the semi sweet chocolate chips in a small bowl. Add chocolate chips to
this cream and mix well until well blended. Allow the ganache to cool
and firm, and frost the cake as desired.
Notes:
I
did not want to frost all the cupcakes so did not make too much
ganache. With this quantity I was able to frost half the cupcakes. If
you want to make enough frosting for all the cakes, you might need
double the quantity of ganache.
