Dark Fantasy Cup Cakes - Eggless & Low fat

Chocolate and baking cures pain!

You really need to believe me!! I met with a kitchen disaster last Wednesday and have been kind of facing pain and was out of the kitchen for almost a week. Felt so bored and couldn't resist being away from my kitchen and my blog. I hardly got any mails and queries and that's when I realized how addicted or rather attached to my blog I am.

After having a pretty bad hot sambhar bath on my legs, I choose to start off again with a safer mode of cooking and took up the oven for baking some delicious cakes that will bring me back to mood.

The mood was set to bake but had hardly any ingredients like eggs or condensed milk at home. So I choose the simplest recipe and the cake came out at its best. It was dark, moist, sweet and super soft. The dense texture as well as the light coffee cream icing made it more delicious and filling too :)

This dark fantasy cup cakes are one of my best eggless creations for sure :) Patting my back for the come back recipe :)

Ingredients:

All purpose flour (maida) - 7 tblsp

Wheat flour - 2 tblsp

Cocoa powder - 5 tblsp

Powdered sugar - 10 tblsp

Cooking soda - 1 tsp

Cooking oil (groundnut / sunflower / canola) - 6 tblsp

Milk - 10 tblsp

Method:

Sieve maida, wheat flour, powdered sugar, cocoa powder and cooking soda together.

Take it in a mixing bowl. Add milk and oil to it and beat well with hand beater. The batter should be smooth without lumps. It should be in pouring consistency.

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line the muffin tray with liners.

Fill muffin cups with batter almost full leaving just 2 mm from the top and bake it for 18-20 mins at 180°C. Adjust the time according to your oven settings.

Check if cooked by inserting a skewer in the center. Once done, allow it to cool on a wire rack for a while.

This quantity makes exactly 6 dense and beautifully puffed up cupcakes.

Coffee cream:

Beat fresh cream until stiff peaks form.

Take 1 tsp of instant coffee powder and mix it in 1 tblsp of warm water.

Fold in the coffee mixture into the cream and pipe it on the cup cakes.

Grate some dark chocolate (Bonneville) and sprinkle on top.

Enjoy the delicious dark fantasy cup cakes :)

Tips:

Allow the cup cakes to completely cool down before you do the icing.

Refrigerate the cake before serving for best results and delicious chill dessert.

Written by: Nithya
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