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!