Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes

Hallowe’en is approaching and all the youngsters are waiting to dress up like monsters, ghostly ghouls and witches. These chocolate Halloween cupcakes will be exactly the thing when it concerns satisfying those small monsters, ghostly ghouls and witches hungry stomachs. You may bake them a day earlier and store them in a cookie tin, or bake them on the same day. If your little monsters prefer to help they could be your extra hands in the kitchen. Let’s get producing these tasty chocolate cupcakes.

Ingredients

- For the cupcakes

12 paper cases

280g/10oz butter, softened

280g/10oz golden caster sugar

200g/7oz self-raising flour

1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder

6 medium eggs

- For the topping

200g/7oz butter, softened

280g/10z icing sugar, sifted

12 sugar halloween decorations

Technique

For the cupcakes

1 – Preheat oven to 190 C/Gas 5/fan oven 170 C.

2 – Line a 12-cup muffin tin with brown muffin cases.

3 – Crack the eggs into a large bowl and beat lightly with a fork

4 – Place all the other ingredients into the bowl

5 – Beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes, until light and creamy

6 – Spoon into the cases, almost filling them to the top.

7 – Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until risen and spongy.

8 – Cool on a rack.

For the topping

1 – Beat the butter and icing sugar until smooth

2 – Spread a layer of icing over each cake

3 – Then add your sugar Halloween decorations on top

Takes 45minutes, plus cooling down (unless the little ones are helping – Makes 12

Tips:

• These chocolate cupcakes are themed by applying sugar Halloween decorations.

This implies that you are able to apply this simple chocolate cupcake recipe for whatever occasion you desire. Merely by adding the relevant sugar decoration will make the cupcakes appeal to any occasion.

• Try adding a few drops of flavouring to the cupcake mix, like vanilla, orange or even mint.

Happy Eating.

Kabhi B, a neighborhood bakery | Ahmedabad

What you see – The open space outside Kabhi B in Samaan complex near Mansi crossroads is a place of rendezvous for students returning home from tuitions. In fact, in the evenings, you will in all likelihood see teenagers with bags sitting outside the bakery, laughing and having a good time. Inside, it’s a small bakery with racks filled with desserts and baked items. Not a very spacious store, but still has whatever an ideal bakery should have.

What you get – Kabhi B in Ahmedabad is very well-known for its cakes and pastries. The confectionary is 100% vegetarian where they offer only eggless cakes.

Right at the billing counter, cakes and pastries such as chocolate truffle, pineapple cake and chocolate chips are displayed in the glass showcase. Bakery items such as muffins, cream rolls in chocolate and vanilla flavors, roasted salted nuts like almonds, pistachios and cashews all fill up the remaining showcase.

In the racks you will also find salsa sauce, Szechwan sauce, mayonnaise, garlic and ginger paste and baked beans.

Then there are varieties of bread and rusk such as wheat bread, brown bread, jeera rusk, kharis and so on. Different varieties of biscuits and cookies also find a place in these racks. Ready to eat snacks such as Chinese rolls, Veg burger, Chinese noodles, puffs and so on are there too. Besides, they have packs of noodles, biscuits and other grocery products. Their chocolates packed in attractive wrappers are yummy.

Pizza base, nachos, garlic bread, bread stick and more are also offered at the bakery. Kabhi B delivers customized cakes according to your order. You can even buy magic candles from here.

Our verdict – Kabhi B has been around in Ahmedabad since a long time and has many other outlets in the city as well. It seems to have a fan following of its own to such an extent that its loyal customers refuse to buy cakes from anywhere else. It’s a great neighborhood bakery unlike other new, sleek ones. Perhaps, it could get a little cleaner though. Customer service is very down-to-earth and cordial. Parking space is available.

Anytime between – 10 AM – 10 PM