Chocolate And Lime Cupcakes

Delicious cakes

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• mixture:
• 175g self raising flour
• 175g butter
• 175g caster sugar
• 3 eggs (beaten)
• 50g bourneville cocoa powder
• juice of 1 lime
• topping:
• zest of one lime
• 100g icing sugar
• 20g bourneville cocoa powder
• 70g butter

Instructions

STEP 1:

Method

STEP 2:

(pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4)

STEP 3:

1. Cream the butter and the sugar together in a large mixing bowl.

STEP 4:

2. Add the beaten eggs in slowly whilst mixing together.

STEP 5:

3. Pour in the lime juice.

STEP 6:

4. Beat in the flour gently before adding in the cocoa powder. You will get a normal cake mixture that just smells deliciously of lime and chocolate!

STEP 7:

5. Line a muffin tin with cases and spoon in the mixture evenly.

STEP 8:

6. Bake for 10 minutes, then turn the cakes round and bake for another 10 minutes until ready!

STEP 9:

7. For the icing just mix all the ingredients listed under the topping section and either pipe onto the cakes or decorate however you wish!