Like chocolate? You’re going to love this! A rich chocolate cupcake flecked with dark chocolate chips, filled with a hidden white chocolate core and topped with a smooth, decadent chocolate frosting.
Triple chocolate surprise cupcakes with a white chocolate core
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A rich chocolate cupcake with a hidden white chocolate core.
Author: Emily Leary
Recipe type: Cookies, cakes and bakes
Serves: 12
Ingredients
For the sponge:
- 150g (5.5 oz) butter
- 200g (7 oz) sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 1tsp baking powder
- 200g (7 oz) self-raising flour
- 1tbsp cocoa
- 2 tbsp whole milk
- 100g (3.5 oz) melted dark chocolate
- 100g (3.5 oz) dark chocolate chips
For the white chocolate core:
- 100ml (3.5 fl oz) double cream
- 200g (7 oz) white chocolate
For the frosting:
- 170g (6 oz) butter
- 500g (17.5 oz) icing sugar
- 50ml (1.5 - 2 fl oz) whole milk
- 2 tbsp cocoa
- 100g (3.5 oz) dark chocolate, melted
- Chocolate shards to decorate (optional)
Instructions
Make the sponge:
- Preheat the oven to 190C/375F (170C/340F fan)
- Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy
- Beat the eggs separately, then beat into the mix bit by bit
- Sieve in the flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold through
- Fold in the milk to loosen
- Fold in the cool melted chocolate
- Fold in the chocolate chips
- Spoon into a 12 hole muffin tray lined with paper cases
- Bake for 18-20 minutes until just firm on top
- Leave to cool completely on a wire rack
Make the white chocolate core:
- Heat the cream to a simmer
- Add the broken up chocolate
- Stir until melted
- Leave to cool to room temp
- Cut out a hole from the centre of each one - I used a cupcake corer from Lakeland
- Pour the cool ganache into each hole, up to the top
- Leave to set for 30 minutes
Make the frosting:
- Beat the butter on its own until fluffy
- Add the icing sugar, cocoa and milk and beat together - starting slow and then speeding up until fluffy
- Add the cooled chocolate and beat again
- Transfer into a piping bag with an open star nozzle and pipe high swirls, keeping the bag upright to give lovely frilly swirls
- I topped mine with chocolate shards
These cupcakes look fabulous!!
I do love it! You are right! I love the photos and I would love to eat one! Alas on my grainfree, sugarfree, starchfree diet there is no room for such deliciousness!!! Booooo.
Oh. My. Goodness. These look amazing! Whoops, there goes the diet ;)
YUM’d! This looks delicious. A definite must try! Please come share your blog posts over at the Home Matters Linky Party! We’d love to have you for a visit. The Door is OPEN. :) ~Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai
These look delicious, chocolate <3 at its best!
Triple Chocolate? How can I resist! Looks totally scrumptious!
Oh my, a chocoholic’s dream come true. My daughter was just baking chocolate cakes this afternoon and I bet if she’d seen this recipe she would have made these but she put her white chocolate on top with a cherry instead! I’ll tell her about these for next time though!
Ooooh my, thank you so much for this recipe, we’re going to love this