Chocolate Cupcake with Icing

Chocolate cake is a delicious pastry for tea or coffee. The chocolate glaze gives the cake a special charm.

Ingredients

• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Vegetable oil (odorless) – 120 ml
• Vanilla sugar – 10 g
• Sugar – 180 g
• Flour – 250 g
• Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
• Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp
• Milk – 180 ml
• Chocolate drops – 50 g
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For chocolate glaze:

• Milk – 80 ml
• Butter – 25 g
• Sugar – 2 tbsp
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp

Directions

1. Ingredients for making a chocolate cake. The vegetable oil used is refined deodorized, i.e. without smell. Turn on the oven to heat up to 170 degrees.
2. Break the eggs and send them to a bowl. Add sugar and vanilla sugar. Whisk the eggs and sugar into an airy foam.
3. Pour in vegetable oil and beat again.
4. Combine flour, baking powder and cocoa powder.

   

5. Add dry ingredients and milk alternately to the egg and butter mixture, stirring with a whisk.
6. You should get a thick, homogeneous dough without lumps. Add chocolate drops, stir.
7. Put the dough in a muffin baking dish (mine is silicone).
8. Bake the chocolate cake in the oven at 170 degrees for 1 hour. Check the readiness of the cake with a dry wooden skewer.
9. Cool the cake in a mold, then transfer to a wire rack.
10. Ingredients for chocolate icing.
11. Combine cocoa powder with 2-3 tablespoons of milk, mix well. Pour the rest of the milk into a ladle. Pour sugar there.
12. Put a ladle on a small fire and heat, stirring constantly, until all the sugar is dissolved. While continuing to heat, add cocoa with milk in portions and stir immediately so that there are no lumps. The mixture thickens noticeably. Let the fire be the smallest – the glaze should not boil.
13. When the cocoa is completely dissolved and the mass is smooth, add the butter. Heat until all the butter is melted. Then remove the ladle from the heat.
14. Stir constantly and cool the glaze until warm. The icing should drip off the spoon in wide, continuous drops (i.e., not trickle or fall off).
15. Gently apply the icing to the surface of the chocolate cake, it will form beautiful smudges by itself. If desired, decorate the icing with confectionery sprinkles.
16. Delicious chocolate cake with icing is ready.