Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes

[Baked on 23 Mar 2013]
Suddenly I felt like eating chocolate fudge cake. I've made chocolate fudge cakes before, and I usually fall back on this recipe - Steamed Moist Chocolate Cake. This recipe yields a very nice chocky and moist cake. However, this time round, I baked them into cupcakes instead. The baked cupcakes were dense and moist. The baked texture was different from the steamed texture. It makes quite a good dense cupcakes.

Recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes, adapted from Peng's Kitchen.
(Makes approx. 16 regular cupcakes)

Ingredients:

150g Liv unsalted butter
145g Fine sugar
200g Evaporated milk
2 Eggs, lightly beaten
125g Plain flour
70g Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract

Method:

1. Combine sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved and butter has melted. Remove from heat.
2. Add the beaten eggs into the slightly cooled mixture and stir till well mixed.
3. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda into a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs mixture over the flour and stir till smooth. (Batter should be runny).
4. Scoop them into muffin trays lined with paper cups.
5. Bake at preheated oven at 180C for 20 mins. Or insert a skewer into the cake and comes out clean.
6. Leave to cool completely before frosting.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

35g Cocoa powder, sifted
50g Corn flour, sifted
1 cup evaporated milk (approx. 250g)
2 Egg yolks
175g Water
100g Caster sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
50g Unsalted butter

Method:

1. Mix all ingredients well (except the butter. stir over double boiler at low heat till thickened. (takes abt 10mins to thicken)
2. Add butter, turn off fire and stir till the butter melts.
3. Spread the warm fudge over the cupcake.
4. Chill the cake in the fridge before serving.