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Grasshopper Cupcakes Recipe


Grasshopper Cupcakes Recipe
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Yummy Mint Chocolate Cupcakes with a surprise!

Freyae

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Ingredients
  • 225g Plain Flour, sifted
  • 4 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
  • 1 Tsp Baking Powder
  • 225g Caster Sugar
  • Pinch Salt
  • 225g Unsalted Butter
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 tsp Peppermint Essence
  • 18 Chocolate Covered Mints (like York Peppermint Bites or Bendicks)
  • For the Icing:
  • 115g Softened Butter
  • 225g Icing Sugar
  • 1 tsp Peppermint Essence or Mint Syrup (made with 100g sugar boiled up with 100ml water, add a bunch of chopped mint, boil for 30 seconds then remove from the heat and puree)
  • Green Food Colouring (optional if using the Mint Syrup as this is already green)

Directions
  1. Preheat the Oven to 160c (325f).
  2. Line 2 Cupcake Tins with 18 Liners.
  3. In a bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
  4. In another bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.
  5. Beat the eggs, one at a time, into the butter and sugar.
  6. Gradually mix in the sifted flour and cocoa powder, mixing to a smooth thick consistency.
  7. Finally, stir in the teaspoon of Peppermint Essence.
  8. Put a teaspoon of the mixture into each case, then a chocolate/mint then top with another half teaspoon or so of the mixture (however much it takes to use up all the mixture).
  9. Bake for 20 minutes or until slightly risen and springy to the touch.
  10. Leave to stand for 5 minutes, then remove from the tin and leave to cool.
  11. Meanwhile, mix up the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Stir in the peppermint extract (or syrup) and colouring.
  12. Once the cupcakes are cool, spread a thick layer of the icing over each.
  13. You could probably also palm these off as St Patricks Day cupcakes if you stuck a green marzipan Shamrock on top of the icing.

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Comments


This looks really good! I love mint and chocolate together!


This looks yummy - gonna try making it this evening!


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