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Main Ingredients | Refined flour (maida), Dark cooking chocolate |
Cuisine | Fusion |
Course | Desserts |
Prep Time | 16-20 minutes |
Cook time | 21-25 minutes |
Serve | 4 |
Taste | Sweet |
Level of Cooking | Moderate |
Others | Non Veg |
Ingredients list for Choco Cups
- 1 1/3 cups Refined flour (maida)
- 60 grams Dark cooking chocolate chopped
- 100 grams Butter
- 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar sieved
- 4 Eggs separated
- 3 teaspoons Baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla essence
- Icing sugar
- FOR TOPPING
- 12 tablespoons Chocolate, melted
- 8 tablespoons Fresh cream
- 1 tablespoon Butter
- a few Gems
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/ Gas Mark 4. Grease moulds or paper cups.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler and add five tablespoons of boiling water. Cool this mixture slightly. Beat butter until soft.
- Add the sugar gradually. Blend these ingredients until they are very light and creamy.
- Beat in one egg yolk at a time. Add the chocolate mixture and mix.
- Sieve the flour with baking powder and salt. Mix milk and vanilla essence.
- Add the flour mixture in three parts to the butter-sugar mixture alternately with milk.
- Beat the batter until it is smooth after each addition. Whip egg whites until stiff but not dry.
- Fold them lightly into the cake batter.
- Pour into prepared moulds or paper cups till two thirds full and bake at 180C/ 350 F/ Gas Mark 4 for thirty minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack before de-moulding. Mix together melted chocolate with fresh cream and butter till well blended.
- Spread over the cup cakes. Sprinkle a few gems on top of each cup cake and serve.
- If you so wish you can sprinkle icing sugar on the cup cakes before serving.
Nutrition Info
Calories | 3641 |
Carbohydrates | 375 |
Protein | 65.5 |
Fat | 208.6 |
Other Fiber | Iron- 27.8mg |
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