Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes With Strawberry Filling


           For quite sometime now, I wanted to try out cupcakes with some filling inside, but being the lazy me, I didn't do it until now. Well, this time I was paired with Janani Krishnakumaar of Red Chilly Curry for the 'Shhhh Cooking Secretly' challenge, she gave me chocolate and strawberries as the two ingredients. After some thought, I decided to make these cupcakes with strawberry filling. I decided to make the cupcakes vegan and made the filling with fresh strawberries ( my next post ), of course, you can use any fruit preserve or store bought jam or jelly instead of the strawberry filling. Though I have called them cupcakes, I didn't make them too sweet, you could have a couple of them for breakfast too, they were moist, soft and delicious..

Need To Have

  • All Purpose Flour/Maida - 3/4 cup
  • Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 11/2 tablespoon
  • Granulated Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • Oil - 1/4 cup
  • Orange Juice - 1/2 cup
  • Baking Soda - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Baking Powder - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Vanilla Extract - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Salt - a pinch
  • Strawberry Jelly/Jam - for filling the cupcakes


Method


          Take the orange juice, oil, sugar, salt and vanilla extract, and beat it till the sugar dissolves a little. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda together and add it to the wet ingredients and mix it up.


          Spoon it into a greased muffin pan and bake it at 190 C for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes, remove the cakes from the pan and cool it completely.


          Once cooled, take a cupcake, scoop out the center part, spoon in a little strawberry filling and close it with the scooped top ( only with the top half of it ) and press it well.


          Dust some icing sugar and serve.


Note
I have used homemade strawberry filling.
Once you fill up the cake with the fruit filling, we can't leave it out for more than a day.
I have used a murukku acchu as a stencil while dusting with the icing sugar.
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12 comments:

  1. The cupcakes look delicious hema and using the muruku achu is such a swell idea

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  2. Beautiful flavors with cute decoration :)

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  3. Hema so amazing chocolate and strawberry perfect combo

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  4. Wow super tempting cake . Love it

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  5. Delicious looking cupcakes.. Love the idea of strawberry filling..

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  6. They look so beautiful! Love that strawberry filling.

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  7. very nice concept....kids will love this surprise

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  8. Nice puçá n great idea..cup cakes r tempting hema :)

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  9. Beautiful cupcakes. They look very cute and yummy :)

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  10. Wow, cake looks really nice, strawberry will make it double tasty.

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  11. Wow!! what a combo!! very well presented!!

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  12. oh my!!Lovely combo and beautiful presentation. very tempting

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