Chocolate Butter Cupcakes

Moist, chocolate-y and not too dense, just what I like a chocolate cupcake to be.

The recipe is for a cocoa-based butter cake that uses the author’s favoured 2-stage mixing method. The batter takes only minutes to mix once the cocoa-boiling water mixture has cooled, and just a short time to bake so these treats can be ready in less than an hour.

These are good enough to eat plain but I had some leftover toppings from previous projects that I wanted to use up so this batch was frosted with peanut butter buttercream and chocolate ganache.