Eat Like Royalty With This Chocolate Cupcake Recipe From Queen Elizabeth's Pastry Chefs
In honor of Queen Elizabeth II's 94th birthday on April 21, Her Majesty's pastry chefs shared their recipe for chocolate cupcakes, which look absolutely elegant. Shared to the Royal Family's official Instagram account, the recipe calls for just 10 standard ingredients, plus a few white chocolate chips to mix into the batter as a sweet surprise.
Easy to make and fun to decorate, this is the perfect recipe to try out if you're looking to kick your baking game up a notch. (Plus, it'll leave you feeling like royalty.) My cake decorating skills may not be on par with those of the royal pastry chefs, but you can bet I'm whipping together a batch as soon as I can stop myself from staring at these beautiful treats. Check out the recipe for yourself ahead.
The Royal Pastry Chefs' Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
- Ingredients For the Cake:
- 15 grams vinegar
- 300 milliliters milk
- 50 milliliters vegetable oil
- 60 grams butter (melted and cool)
- 2 eggs
- 5 milliliters vanilla extract
- 250 grams self-raising flour
- 75 grams cocoa powder
- 300 grams caster sugar
- 10 grams baking soda
- 100 grams white chocolate chips
- Ingredients For the Buttercream Topping:
- 90 grams high-percentage dark chocolate
- 100 grams butter
- 125 grams powdered sugar
- Optional: Food coloring
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius (about 300 degrees Fahrenheit) and place your cupcake liners in the cups of the tray.
Combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and baking soda in a mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla extract, melted butter, oil, milk, and vinegar.
Slowly add the wet mixture into the dry mixture and combine until the the batter is smooth with no lumps. Next, fold in the chocolate chips or other mix-ins, such as nuts, dried fruit, or sprinkles.
Use a metal spoon to equally divide the mixture into the liners, leaving each liner about 3/4 full. Bake the cupcakes for 15-18 minutes, or until golden and springy to the touch. Set the tray aside until the cupcakes are completely cool.
Using a whisk or hand mixer, cream together the powdered sugar and butter until it reaches a light and creamy consistency. Fold in the warm melted chocolate and your desired amount of food coloring, if you're using it.
If you have a piping bag at hand, pipe the icing on top of the cakes for decoration. You can also decorate your cupcakes using a spoon, spatula, or butter knife.
If you're decorating your cupcakes with royal icing, roll the icing out into thin sheets and use the rim of a cup to cut the icing into circular disks. Lay the discs over each cupcake and shape them around the tops of the cupcake gently using your hand or the back of a spoon.