Cherry Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes

Dr Oetker is currently hosting a chocolate cupcake competition where entrants will be in with a chance of winning a trip for two to New York. You can find further details of The Great Chocolate Bake here.

I made my first batch of these chocolate cupcakes when I made my Mocha cupcakes. The cake is lovely and light and very moist and chocolatey. I mentioned before that now I've tried this recipe I don't think I will be baking any other kind of chocolate cupcake in the future and will instead experiment with fillings and toppings.

This time I decided to go with a chocolate cheesecake type of frosting with a juicy Morello cherry inserted into the middle of the cake, and topped off with some chocolate chunks.

    

Cherry Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes - makes approx 12

cupcakes

100ml boiling water

35g Cocoa powder

190g Caster Sugar

115g Plain Flour

3/4 tsp Baking powder

3/4 tsp Bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 Egg

60ml Sunflower oil

125ml Milk

Cheesecake Frosting & decoration

100g Dr Oetker Fine Cooks Chocolate - extra dark, melted & cooled slightly

200g Full fat cream cheese

40g Icing sugar

Morello cherries

Dr Oetker milk chocolate chunks

• Mix the water and cocoa powder together until smooth
• Stir the remaining dry ingredients together in a large bowl
• Beat in the egg, sunflower oil, milk & chocolate, mix for 2 minutes until smooth
• The batter will be quite thin but that's ok
• Ladle into the cupcake cases until 2/3 full
• Bake in a 180 C oven for approx 18-20 minutes, until springy to the touch
• Allow the cakes to cool fully on a wire rack
• Make the frosting by beating the cream cheese, chocolate & icing sugar together
• Using an apple corer or spoon cut the centre out of each cake and pop a cherry in before replacing the piece of cake
• Decorate the cupcakes with the frosting and chocolate chunks

 

I was sent some Dr Oetker products to use in my baking