Triple Chocolate Cup Cake

Recipe No: 56

This recipe uses three types of Chocolate. Chocolate powder, Semisweet chocolate chips and 'Hershey's Kisses' and hence the name. As it is summer vacation, this is a great 'tasty' project to do with your kids.

Ingredients                                     Makes 18 Cup Cake

• All Purpose Flour…………………..1 1/3 Cup
• Baking Powder………………………2 Teaspoon
• Salt……………………………………...1/4 teaspoon
• Butter………………………………….1/2 Cup or 1 Stick
• Sugar…………………………………..1 Cup
• Eggs……………………………………2 Large
• Vanilla Essence…………………….2 Teaspoon
• Hot water……………………………1 Cup
• Cocoa Powder……………………...1/2 Cup
• Instant Coffee Powder…………..3/4 Teaspoon
• Semisweet Chocolate Chips…...1/2 Cup
• Cup Cake Liners…………………..18
• Hershey’s kisses peeled………...18

Method of Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 375˚F/180˚C.
2. Line a Muffin tin with cupcake liners and spray it with cooking spray.
3. Dissolve Chocolate and Coffee powder in hot water and let it cool down to a room temperature.
4. Sift together Flour, Baking Powder and Salt well and keep aside.
5. Beat Butter and Sugar till light and fluffy.
6. Add eggs one at a time and mix properly, followed by Vanilla Essence.
7. Add Flour and Chocolate water alternating with each other, starting and ending with Flour.
8. Once everything is mixed well add Chocolate Chips and mix.
9. Pour the batter equally into 18 cupcake liners and bake it for 15 to 18 minutes or till an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
10. Once out of the oven insert one of the Kisses Chocolate into the middle of the each Cupcake. The heat from the Cupcakes will soften the chocolate.
11. Cool the Cup cakes on a wire rack and eat it warm or at room temperature.

Notes: 

• Instead of Chocolate Chips you can use broken Chocolate pieces too.
• The quality of the Chocolate powder is very important in this recipe. So try to use the best ones available. I used a Dutch processed Cocoa powder.
• Instead of the cooking spray you can slightly grease the cup cake liners with butter.
• Using an Ice cream scoop to fill the cups will ensure equal amount of batter in each cupcake.
• It is better to use all the ingredients at room temperature.
• Don’t mix too much after adding the flour. It will make the cupcakes hard.

 

Make it, enjoy the deliciousness and 
serve it to your family with love…