Chocolate cupcake with icing
It turns out a very decent size, enough for a large family. I baked in a 33x24 cm form. The dough is slightly moist due to the addition of sour cream to it. Very chocolatey, more masculine, I think.
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 3 art. l. water
- 1.5 st. l. cognac (optional)
- 3 art. l. low fat cream
- 15 g butter
- 200 g butter
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 300 g flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 290 g brown sugar
- 200 g sour cream (I took 20%)
- 2 eggs
Cooking
Step 1
We put the oven to heat up to 190 degrees. I used a 33x24 cm form. It doesn’t cost more, less is possible. Cover its bottom with parchment greased with oil, grease the sides too and lightly sprinkle with flour.
Step 2
Cooking dough. Melt chocolate and butter in a water bath. Make sure that the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl in which to melt the chocolate and stir constantly. Set aside.
Step 3
Sift flour and mix thoroughly with baking powder. Add brown sugar, mix everything.
Step 4
Pour melted chocolate into bowl with flour and sugar. Mix very well. The dough is tough and hard to mix.
Step 5
Add sour cream, mix everything. The dough gradually becomes more pliable.
Step 6
And the last ingredient - add eggs. At this stage, I have already whipped the dough with a mixer.
Step 7
We shift the dough into a mold. We send the form to the oven for 40-45 minutes. Readiness to check with a wooden stick. After baking, let rest in the mold for 5 minutes. and then carefully place on a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 8
Ready for frosting. I used chocolate for the icing, but this is completely optional, you can take two bars of dark chocolate. If we do it in a water bath, then we put chocolate in the mold, 3 tbsp. l. water, cognac Melt, stirring regularly. When the chocolate has melted, pour in the cream and remove from heat. Add a piece of butter. We mix everything well.
Step 9
Pour the glaze over the cooled cake immediately. The consistency of the glaze can be seen in the photo. I do this as follows - I lay parchment paper under the grate and then pour the icing on top, distributing with a spatula.