Mocha Cupcakes!

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Mocha Mini Cupcakes

Ingredients for the batter:

1.       All-purpose flour- 2 cups.

2.       Butter-50gms.( kept in room temperature)

3.       Eggs: 2

4.       Vanilla Extract: 1 tablespoon.

5.       Sugar- 2 cups.

6.       Salt: ½ teaspoon.

7.       Milk-1 cup.

8.       Baking Powder: 2 teaspoon.

9.       Coffee: 1 tablespoon

10.     Cocoa Powder: 3 tablespoon.

Ingredients for Fresh- Cream frosting:

1.       Fresh Cream- 50ml (kept in refrigerator)

2.       Confectioners’ sugar- 1 cup.

3.       Salt- A pinch or two.

4.       Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon.

Process:

This is very light mixture, so I did not use the electric mixer for this. I just used the large egg beater, but you can always use the electric mixer if you want :)

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade.
2. Place muffin covers in your muffin tray or grease your muffin moulds and keep them aside.
3. In a separate bowl crack the eggs. Now you always want to crack eggs separately, just to avoid any rotten one mixing up with rest of the ingredients.
4. In a separate bowl or in the electric mixer, add butter and sugar and blend it until they are nice and creamy.
5. Add your eggs and vanilla extract and mix/blend everything together.
6. Add this moment you add all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder and slowly add milk and combine everything together. 
7. This is going to be smooth batter and not runny at all. Now fill your muffin tray or the muffin moulds and pop them inside the oven for 15-20 minutes. (Remember we are making cupcakes and not muffins, so do not over fill the moulds).
8. Having said that, remember every oven is different and the temperature does differ. So keep checking your cupcakes after 15 mins. You know it’s cooked, when a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cupcakes would come clean without any mess.
9. Once you know the cupcakes are ready! Turn off the oven and remove them from the heat and allow them to cool completely before frosting them.

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For Whipped Cream Frosting:

1. Pour fresh cream in a large mixing bowl and starting beating it until it is little tick in consistency.
2. Now add powdered sugar, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
3. Beat untill you form peak in the cream.
4. Fill it in the piping bag and decorate as you wish. 

I hope you all will try this recipe at home and enjoy with your friends.

Happy Cooking!

Cheers.