MAKES 12 CUPCAKES
Ingredients Required for the Cupcakes
Cupcakes
- ¾ cup butter at room temperature – softened
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¾ cup sifted self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon sifted baking powder
- 1 large egg(or 2 small eggs) room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
METHOD
FOR MAKING THE CUPCAKES
- Preheat the oven to 325 °F – 180 °C.
- Line the cupcake baking pans with paper liners of your choice.
- Add the butter in a bowl and mix it with an electric beater at medium speed.
- Gradually add the sugar to the butter mixture while beating continuously
- Beat in the eggs a little at a time.
- Using a spoon or spatula Add the sifted flour gradually . Keep on Stirring till all traces of flour are gone.
- Now Add the baking powder.
- Add a pinch of salt and the vanilla extract.
- Mix the batter to a smooth mixture.
- Now Divide the batter into two separate bowls.
- Blend the cocoa powder into one portion of batter and beat till it is smooth.
- Spoon the two batters into the baking cups alternately until they are half full.(plain batter followed by cocoa batter ,again plain batter)
- Then, with a fork, smoothly draw swirls through the batter of each cupcake to marbleize it. Don’t mix the batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 15 – 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
- Set aside on a cooling rack to cool.
