Recipe of the Day

[patgund]

Chcolate Ginger Cupcake

Ingredients -

3/4 cup--6oz--175gm butter or margarine
3/4 cup--6oz--175gm castor sugar
1 cup--4oz--115gm self-raising flour
1/2 cup--2oz--60gm cocoa
1/2 cup--2oz--60gm chopped crystalised ginger for the cake mixture and more ginger chopped to decorate the top of the cakes.
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 eggs
1 tablespoon of warm water

Directions -

Cream butter or margarine with the castor sugar in a large bowl. Add the vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the chopped ginger. Sift in the flour and the cocoa. Fold in. Add the water. Place the mixture in individual cupcake cases in a baking tray. Cook at gas 5--190C--375F for 12 t0 15 minutes.

Chocolate Icing

3/4 cup--4oz--110gm dark cooking chocolate
1/2 cup--4oz--110gm butter
2 1/2 cups--10oz--290gm icing sugar
strong black coffee

Directions -

Put a pan on the stove with a small amount of boiling water. Place a bowl over the top. Put the chocolate in here to melt. In another bowl cream the butter. Add the melted chocolate to the butter, mix. Gradually add the icing sugar and mix well, add the coffee in teaspoons to keep the mixture runny and creamy enough to use as icing.

Comments

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, this sounds good! Saving to "memories".

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Even after spending the day at the state fair eating everything in sight, that sounds PLENTY GOOD!! ^_^