Foodie Fridays: Chocolate chip cupcakes

   This is undoubtedly one of my favourite cake recipes ever! There’s just something exciting about little bits of chocolate that you’ll randomly find within a cake with every bite. This is also one of the laziest cake recipes I have and it can easily be used to make a large cake instead of cupcakes if one were to reduce the baking temperature to gas mark 3.  So without further ado:

Ingredients:

400 gm self-raising flour

150 gm sugar

150 gm butter/ margarine

200 ml milk

4 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ a bar of cooking chocolate

1 heaped teaspoon of icing sugar

Utensils:

Large mixing bowl

Wooden spoon

Blender

Sieve

Cupcake tray

Cupcake liner

Method:

1.       Pre-heat oven to gas mark 5.

2.       Sieve the flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl.

Sieved flour

3.       Put the sugar, eggs, margarine, vanilla essence and half the milk in a blender. Blend until thoroughly mixed.

4.       Pour the blended mixture into the flour and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon while adding the rest of the milk bit by bit.

5.       Roughly chop-up the chocolate into small pieces and add into the batter. Mix well.

My cooking chocolate. Can be found at any supermarket.

Batter is ready

6.       Place a cupcake liner into every depression in the cup-cake tray. Fill each one ¾ of the way with the batter.

Before

7.       Bake at gas mark 4 for approx. 30 min/ till golden brown.

After

8.       Remove the cupcakes from the tray and let them cool for about 2 hours.

9.       Put the icing sugar in a small sieve and sprinkle on the cup-cakes to decorate.

All done

Bon appétit!