Chocolate Cupcake with Blueberry Frosting

Ingredients list for Chocolate Cupcake with Blueberry Frosting

• 1/4 cup Cocoa powder
• 1 3/4 cups Refined flour (maida)
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 4 Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• Frosting
• 1/4 cup Blueberries canned
• 450 grams Icing sugar
• 1/4 cup Butter

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180º C. Place silicon cupcake moulds on a baking tray.
2. Cream together butter, castor sugar and vanilla essence with the help of electric beater and beat till fluffy.
3. Break eggs and add one by one to the mixture and continue to beat.
4. Sift together refined flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in the butter-egg mixture and fold lightly.
5. Fill a piping bag with the prepared mixture and pipe out the mixture into silicon cupcake moulds on a baking tray. Put the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes.
6. For the frosting, mix icing sugar and butter in a bowl and beat with the electric beater and beat till smooth and creamy. Add blueberries and beat again till well blended.
7. Demould the cupcakes and cool to room temperature.
8. Pour the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.
9. Pipe out portions of frosting on the cupcakes, place them on a serving platter and serve immediately.