Children’s Day Recipe To Elevate Your Celebrations, Burst Of Chocolate

Children's Day 2024 is knocking on our doors, and it's time to gear up and cheer your amazing students, or children with their favourite chocolate recipe.

Every year Children's Day is observed on the 14th of November, to spread awareness of the rights and welfare of children, while ensuring everyone understands the importance of education.

Elevate Children's Day 2024 celebrations with irresistible Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes

Ingredients

For Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes

• 110 g butter melted
• 150 g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp Whittard Limited Edition Chocolate Cherry Hot Chocolate powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 120 ml milk
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 170 g plain flour
• 12 tsp cherry jam

For Cherry Buttercream

• 150 g butter softened
• 300 g icing sugar
• 2 tbsp cherry jam
• 12 fresh cherries
• 100 g dark chocolate melted

Instructions

For Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes

• Line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners and preheat your oven to 170C
• Add the butter and sugar to a bowl and mix until well combined
• Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla
• In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder and hot chocolate powder and mix well
• Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients bowl and fold it through to form a smooth batter
• Split the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases and bake for 20 minutes
• While it's baking melt your dark chocolate in a bowl, then dip your 12 cherries into the melted chocolate and leave on baking paper to set. Leave to one side.

For Cherry buttercream

• Beat the butter and icing sugar together until smooth and fluffy then add the cherry jam and fold it through until the buttercream is tinted pink
• Fill a piping bag with your buttercream and pipe buttercream swirls onto your cupcakes then top each cupcake with a chocolate dipped cherry.

(Recipe credit: mykitchensdrawer.com)