How to prepare dark chocolate and Sicilian orange cupcakes at home: simple, soft and with an intense flavour. For a sprint Breakfast

Dark Chocolate Cupcake and oranges from Sicily: today the recipe for a simple and super soft dessert perfect for a quick breakfast. This morning I woke up with the urge to something I knew about good, sweet and especially of chocolate. I didn't have time to do complicated desserts, but there is always time to make cupcakes!

Chocolate cupcakes and muffins: a simple and chic dessert

I chocolate cupcakes are very easy to prepare, extra soft, full of dark chocolate e orange peel. They are decorated with a delicious and intense taste butter and dark chocolate frosting, garnished with candied orange and currants. In short, they are not simple chocolate cupcakes, but small masterpieces of pastry shop. Because if I feel like chocolate I don't miss anything.

I made 6 of them and finished them in two days flat. The dough base is really super simple to prepare because, as always for the muffin and cupcake doughs, you have to work the ingredients all together and for a short time. Otherwise the sweets will become rubbery. Then you just have to wait for them to cook. Of course, you can also eat them as they are, as if they were simple dark chocolate muffins, my he frosting above is really the extra delicious touch. As evidence that even a simple cupcake it can be tremendously chic!

Simple and delicious muffin and cupcake recipes

If you have something special and sinful in mind for a special person, these cupcakes might be for you. Otherwise, if you are looking for something lighter, also take a look at RECIPE at the VIDEO RECEIVED OF THE MIRTILLI MUFFINS which you can find on my YouTube channel.

Se ami i cupcake o i muffin, have a look at all my MUFFIN and CUPCAKE. My favourites? Definitely i CUPCAKES CON BANANE, WALNUTS AND CINNAMON and those at PUMPKIN AND MASCARPONE. Obviously, I also advise you not to lose all of mine CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPES. Have a good day!

DARK CHOCOLATE AND ORANGE CUPCAKE

Portions: 6 Preparation: 20 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes 20 minutes

Nutrition facts: 250 calories 20 fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• PER I CUPCAKE

125 grams soft butter

125 grams of sugar

2 eggs

a pinch of salt

grated rind of two organic oranges

40 grams of bitter cocoa powder

125 grams of flour

12 grams of baking powder for cakes

• FOR DECORATION (FROSTING)

100 grams soft butter

100 grams of powdered sugar

100 grams of dark chocolate

candied oranges

Ribes

Procedure

PER I CUPCAKES - Prepare the cupcake dark chocolate and oranges today: preheat the oven to 180 degrees static. Put the butter in a bowl, the eggs, sugar, the salt, grated rind of oranges, chocolate, flour and baking powder sifted together and whip with an electric mixer until the mixture is homogeneous and dense foamy.

Spoon the mixture into cups for cupcake muffin (or in the molds) reaching approximately one centimeter from the edge and bake for 20 minutes or until, to the touch, the treats will be soft but will resist. Remove from oven cupcake dark chocolate and let cool on a wire rack.

PER IL frosting - For seal (frosting), fitted with the whisk the sugar and the butter until the mixture is white and fluffy compound, very soft. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie, allow it to cool and, when it is at ambient temperature, add to butter mixture and sugar.

Mix the chocolate with a spatula and allow to rest the frosting in the refrigerator for 15 minutes, so that you rassodi. Working with chocolate frosting with a spatula to make it creamy and shiny then put it in a pastry bag and decorate the cupcakes with buttercream. Garnish the dark chocolate and orange cupcakes with the candied orange peels and currants. Bon appétit!