Chocolate cupcakes - Real Recipes from Mums

Great cup cakes for tea or birthday parties. I always use this recipe for taking cupcakes into school.

I also use this recipe for a big cake too and it takes around 30 mins to cook a big cake.

Ingredients (makes 12 12 large or 24 small)

175g Self Raising Flour
3 Eggs
175g Butter
175g Sugar
25g Coco Powder
for the icing
225g Icing Sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp Coco powder
100g Softened Butter
1 packet Freckles or sweet of your choice for topping

Method

Beat Butter and Sugar till light and creamy. You can use electric mixer.
Slowly whisk in the egg using electric hand whisk.
Then whisk in the flour and coco (on very low so it does not fly out of bowl)
Divide amongst the cup cake wrappers and bake 15 -20 mins 180C until cooked.
For the icing mix the coco, icing sugar and butter until blended together.
when cakes are cool pipe a swirl of icing on top and decorate with a chocolate freckle or sweet of your choice ie smarties.

Notes

For the Freckles you can use any sweet or chocolate. Smarties are bright and colourful or jelly beans look good too. Alternatively you could sprinkle with some sprinkles! Or just leave plain!

102 Comments

- - mom486197 said
  - 23 Jul 2023
    10:36 am
The freakles on top would be a huge hit for the kids. So simple yet colourful and fun

- - Frankiielot said
  - 29 Jul 2022
    4:05 pm
Can’t beat a good chocolate cupcake.
Love how you decorated them – wish I was better at icing things!

- - nadine_hill said
  - 05 Jul 2020
    4:31 pm
Great little party cakes!

- - mom325275 said
  - 28 Nov 2019
    12:10 pm
Great for parties

- - Blossom said
  - 14 Sep 2019
    10:40 pm
You should be able to use the electric mixer on a low setting to whisk the eggs.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 23 Dec 2018
    9:03 am
Love chocolate and also how simple the cupcake recipe seems would be lovely thanks for sharing

- - kjgarner said
  - 10 Jun 2018
    10:35 am
Chocolate, Chocolate and More Chocolate, yummy!!!

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 03 Dec 2017
    7:33 am
What a great treat these look fantastic i like the hundreds and thousands freckles chocolate drop on top

- - mom183717 said
  - 19 Jun 2017
    4:09 pm
These look so decadent and delicious

- - mom112023 said
  - 30 Apr 2017
    11:57 pm
They look lovely. Thanks for the recipe. Hope mine turn out as good.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 22 Jan 2017
    10:34 pm
these look really cool – no freckles for me, but the kids love them!

- - mom112217 said
  - 12 Aug 2016
    8:22 pm
Your cupcakes look amazing! Perfect for a party! Thanks.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 22 Jan 2016
    6:20 pm
These sound amazing and look delicious.

- - mom62624 said
  - 15 Jan 2016
    7:34 am
Thanks for sharing; a lovely recipe and very delicious!.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    12:29 am
Very Nice! A great really looking recipe! Thank you so much for sharing this!

- - mom63229 said
  - 22 Jul 2015
    9:19 pm
I really need to try these for daughter’s birthday party

- - Kell said
  - 21 Jun 2015
    10:12 am
Thanks for sharing this recipe; these look tasty.

- - mom113991 said
  - 07 Mar 2015
    4:33 pm
a great quick and tasty cake made from scratch….yum!

- - mom93821 said
  - 14 Dec 2014
    8:58 pm
Thanks for sharing this recipe; these look yummy.

- - mom94125 said
  - 18 Oct 2014
    8:17 pm
and also i have got to say thanks for posting this