Valentine Chocolate Strawberry Cupcake With Strawberry Mascapone Frosting

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Valentine Chocolate Strawberry Cupcake With Strawberry Mascapone Frosting

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Ingredients:

Chocolate Strawberry Cupcakes

100 g Unsalted butter

160 g Granulated sugar

2 Eggs

A pinch of salt

150 g Cake flour

40 g Cocoa powder

2 tsp Baking powder

160 g Crème Fraîche

1 tsp Chocolate extract

Strawberry

Strawberry Mascapone frosting:

200 ml whipping cream

35 g Sugar

50 g Mascarpone cheese

½ tbsp Lemon juice

1 tsp Strawberry extract

Red food coloring

* You will need 2 batch of this frosting if you make 14 cupcakes.

Decoration:

Small chocolate bar, Kitkat or anything you think they're sweet enough

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 170 °C

Place the baking paper in to the cupcake tins.

Sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder together.

Beat the butter, salt and sugar until light and fluffy, add the chocolate extract and beat to 

combine.

Put the egg in to the batter and beat until combine.

Divide the flour mixture into 3, put 1/3 of the flour mixture into the batter, stir with a spatula, 

when combine, add half of the Crème Fraîche, follow with 1/3 of the flour, stir again then 

add the rest of the Crème Fraîche.

Finish with the rest of the flour, mix to combine.

Scoop the batter into the tins; add the strawberry half in the center.

Bake for 20 minutes (for standard muffin cake) or 25-30 minutes (for large cupcake), or until 

the cake is spring when touch lightly.

Let the cake cool completely before frosting it.

Strawberry Mascapone frosting

Beat the entire ingredient together and put the frosting into a piping bag.

Frost the cake with the frosting and decorate as you wish.

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