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Recipe: Chocolate & Honey Cupcakes - Recette: Cupcakes Chocolat & Miel

Submitted by Nathalie on Wednesday, 11 February 2009One Comment

With a special week on chocolate, I couldn’t resist baking chocolate cupcakes. The recipe is so simple and the result so delicious. The only thing is to find the ingredient that will make them original and extra-special. This time, I’ve chosen to associate dark chocolate and honey. As for the icing, the choice is yours: butter cream, ganache, cheese frosting or simply whipped cream. It’s totally up to you!

Chocolate & Honey Cupcakes

Makes 6 large cupcakes - Ready in 45 minutes

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

  • 100g flour
  • 100g brown sugar
  • 100g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 85g dark chocolate (I used 70% cocoa solids)
  • 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 6 tbsp clear honey (I used orange honey but you can choose any type of honey - though it should be strong so that the tastes comes through the dark chocolate)
  • 6 muffin cases

For the frosting (for 3-4 cupcakes each - I’ve done 3 cupcakes with cream cheese icing and 3 with whipped cream)

  • 90g cream cheese (I used Philadelphia)
  • 60g white chocolate
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp clear honey
  • cake decorations

or/and

  • 150 ml double cream
  • 3 tbsp icing sugar
  • cake decorations

For the icing, you can also simply mix together icing sugar with any fruit juice (approx. 2 tbsp of juice for 100g of icing sugar) or make a butter-cream (50g butter, 85g icing sugar, vanilla extract).

Preparation

The preparation for cupcakes is quick so you can preheat the oven to 180°C / gas 4 from the beginning.

Let’s start with the cupcake preparation: break the dark chocolate in pieces. Put it in a saucepan with the butter and sugar and heat slowly, stirring constantly to avoid burning the sugar and making caramel in the pan. This will take about 3 to 5 minutes.
Once the butter and chocolate have completely melted, pour the mixture into a large bowl. Stir in the flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, cocoa powder and finish with the eggs. You should now have a smooth mixture, which is ready to be poured in the muffin cases.

Ingredients Mix all the ingredients together Fill the muffins cases

Pour 1 tablespoonful of the chocolate mixture into each muffin case. It’s time to add the honey. Pour 1 teaspoonful of clear honey in each case on top of the chocolate mixture. To finish, pour 1 or 2 tablespoonful of chocolate mixture so that the case is filled up to 3/4.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. To know if the cupcakes are ready, stick a knife into the cakes and remove. If the knife is clean, then the cakes are done. Leave to cool.

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Meanwhile you can prepare the frosting.

For the cream cheese icing: break the white chocolate into pieces. Put it in a small saucepan or a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water until it is melted. Beat together the cream cheese, icing sugar, vanilla extract and melted white chocolate.
Spread as much icing as you like on the cupcakes. Drizzle with clear honey and decorate.

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For the whipped cream frosting: whip the double cream and icing sugar until it is thick.
Spread as much whipped cream as you like on the cupcakes and decorate.

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Enjoy!

I was afraid that the taste of honey wouldn’t be strong enough against the dark chocolate, but I was proved wrong. I love the combination and I don’t find it too sugary. It was just perfect!
As to the frosting, I didn’t choose butter-cream because I find it a bit too heavy, or simply icing sugar because it would have been to sugary for me. If I had to pick one, I think I would go for the cream cheese and white chocolate, which works perfectly with these cupcakes.

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Cupcakes Chocolat & Miel

Pour 6 gros muffins - Prêt en 45 minutes

Ingrédients

Pour les muffins

  • 100g farine
  • 100g sucre brun
  • 100g beurre
  • 2 oeufs
  • 85g chocolat noir (j’ai utilisé du chocolat à 70% de cacao)
  • 1 cs cacao en poudre non sucré
  • 2 cc levure chimique
  • 1 cc extrait de vanille
  • 6 cs miel (j’ai utilisé du miel liquide d’orange - je vous conseille de choisir un miel au goût assez prononcé afin qu’il ne soit pas masqué par le chocolat noir)
  • 6 moules à muffin en papier

Pour le glaçage (pour 3-4 muffins - j’ai fait 3 muffins avec le 1er glaçage et 3 avec le second)

  • 90g fromage type St Moret ou Philadelphia
  • 60g chocolat blanc
  • 1 cs sucre glace
  • 1/2 cc extrait de vanille
  • 2 cc miel liquide
  • décorations

ou/et

  • 150ml crème liquide (minimum 35% matière grasse)
  • 2 cs sucre glace
  • décorations

Préparation

Préchauffez le four à 180°C.

Cassez le chocolat noir en morceaux. Faites le fondre à feu doux avec le beurre et le sucre en mélangeant constamment pour éviter que le sucre ne brûle au fond de la casserole. Une fois le chocolat et le beurre entièrement fondu, versez la préparation dans une jatte.
Ajoutez la farine, la levure, le cacao en poudre, l’extrait de vanille et pour finir les oeufs en mélangeant bien entre chaque ajout. Mélangez vigoureusement jusqu’à obtenir une pâte lisse et homogène.

Prenez vos moules à muffins. Versez une cuillerée à soupe dans chaque moule. Ajoutez ensuite 1 cuillerée à café de miel dans chaque moule. Finissez par 1 ou 2 cuillerée à soupe de préparation au chocolat. Les moules doivent être remplis aux 3/4.

Enfournez 20 à 25 minutes. Pour savoir si les muffins sont cuits, plantez la pointe d’un couteau au coeur des gâteaux. Si la pointe ressort sèche, les muffins sont cuits. Sortez du four et laissez refroidir.

Pendant ce temps, vous pouvez préparer le glaçage.

Pour le glaçage au fromage frais et chocolat: cassez le chocolat blanc en morceaux et faites-le fondre au bain-marie. Battez le fromage frais avec l’extrait de vanille et le sucre glace. Ajoutez ensuite le chocolat fondu et mélangez bien jusqu’à obtenir un mélange homogène. Etalez autant de glaçage que vous le souhaitez sur les muffins et décorez.
Pour le glaçage à la crème: fouettez la crème avec le sucre glace jusqu’à ce qu’elle ait durci (c’est bien plus facile à l’aide d’un batteur électrique). Etalez la crème fouettée sur les muffins et décorez.

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One Comment »

  • Harsh Ranjan says:

    Dark chocolate is produced by adding fat and sugar to cacao. It is chocolate without milk as an additive. It is sometimes called “plain chocolate”. The U.S.

    Government has no definition for dark chocolate, only “sweet chocolate”, which requires a 15% concentration of chocolate liquor. Sweet chocolate is not

    necessarily dark chocolate as there is no restriction of milk in it. European rules specify a minimum of 35% cocoa solids

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