Chocolate Lava Cupcakes

Stirring in chocolate mixture.

Fill muffin cups halfway and add chocolate pieces then fill them up again.
Fresh from the oven!
Chocolate oozing out...
Just for Megan's 22nd birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN!!!
An extra one just for me!

Chocolate Lava Cupcakes from "Cooking is my Passion"

Ingredients (Makes 4-5 cupcakes):

60g butter

60g dark chocolate

1 Large egg

25g caster sugar

25g plain flour

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

50g of extra chocolate pieces.

Method:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees, line the muffin tray with paper cups
• Melt the chocolate and butter together in the microwave for 20seconds on high, stir through and melt again till combined.
• Sift the plain flour and cocoa powder in a bowl and set aside.
• Beat egg and sugar in a separate bowl till pale and fluffy
• Stir in chocolate mixture then fold in the sifted flour mixture.
• Do not over stir mixture
• Spoon mixture to prepared muffin tins slightly more than 1/2 filled, then add extra chocolate pieces into the centre as fillings
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20mins. The cupcakes will look puffed up and set on the surface but moist in the middle.

Chocolate Glaze:

25g Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips or any semi-sweet chocolate

1 tablespoons butter

1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar

1 tablespoons water

Method:

• Melt chocolate and butter on a saucepan
• Add sugar slowly
• Add water to the correct consistency for a glaze.