Chocolate Orange cupcakes

This morning I woke up thinking of chocolate orange (for some strange reason), So naturally I decided to bake some choc orange cupcakes,

Makes 12
100g SR flour
140g Caster sugar
40g Butter
20g Coco powder
Orange essence
Zest of 1 orange
120 ml Milk
1 Egg

250g Icing sugar
80g Butter
Orange food colouring
Chocolate sprinkles (optional)

Put the flour ,coco powder, sugar and butter into a mixer or mixing bowl combine until the mixture forms a bread crumb like texture, put the egg in with the milk along with the orange essence mix, slowly pour the milk mixture into the dry ingredients to form a batter.

Pour into cupcake cases 1/3 of the way up. Bake for a bout 12 minutes

while the cakes are baking make the orange buttercream, Place the icing sugar and the butter into a mixer cream together, once combined add a few drops of milk beat together for at least 5 minutes this will make the buttercream light and fluffy, add a few drops of orange essence along with a few drops of orange food colouring mix again until the icing is a mic even orange colour.

Wait for the cakes to cool down, pipe the icing on ,cover in sprinkles ,
Finished!

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Popcorn & Golden syrup

This recipe was made to see if popcorn worked in a cupcake, it's safe to say it does
So as usual a simple vanilla sponge recipe is used the only difference being is that golden syrup is added to the batter, the amount is entirely up to you!
Bake 12 cupcakes
While there in the oven make the popcorn, you can get popcorn kernels in any whole food shop if not I'm sure the microwave popcorn will work as long as its sweet!
When the popcorn has all popped and is cooled down add sugar and some golden syrup give it a good stir to make sure the syrup is covering it all, when the cupcakes are done put to one side to cool
Make a vanilla buttercream adding golden syrup.
Pipe the buttercream and finish with the popcorn!

Burger cupcakes

I saw these whilst doing some cupcake research and I had to try them!

Really simple
Bake 12 vanilla cupcakes,12 chocolate cupcakes and 1 amount of buttercream

Bake the vanilla cupcakes and the chocolate cupcakes leave to cool, make the buttercream divide into 3 colours red, green and yellow. Remove the vanilla cupcakes from their cases and cut in half, remove the chocolate cupcakes and cut the tops off to form a flat burger. Place the chocolate burger on top of the bottom cupcake bun, pipe the icing one colour at a time yellow,green then red!, put the top half back on! Done