Thursday, September 25, 2014

Chocolate chip yogurt cupcakes



(Sorry for the quality of the photo, I couldn't find my camera and had to take it with my phone).
Last year I discovered The Great British Bake Off thanks to a coworker and I've been looking forward to this year's edition ever since I finished watching all the seasons I missed. Now, every Wednesday, you can see me drooling in front of my TV and also eating something sweet to cope with all the longing for cakes and tarts and pies and...well, everything baked, that I get after watching all those gorgeous creations made by amateur bakers (not that I'm surprised that somebody can be so good without being a pro after following dailydelicious for so many years). In this state of mind I decided yesterday to bake some cupcakes so that I had something to go with the program ^^ The chosen ones were these cupcakes from Happy Flour basically because I already had all the ingredients except for the chocolate rice, that I substituted with milk chocolate chips.

This recipe yielded 8 cupcakes but between my boyfriend and I none were left this morning ^^U The cupcakes were really tasty and we specially liked the way the yogurt flavour mixed with the chocolate.

Chocolate chip yogurt cupcakes:

Ingredients:

60g white sugar
40g unsalted butter
110g all purpose flour
110g plain yogurt
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
60g milk chocolate chips

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 175ÂșC.
  2. Sift flour, baking soda and baking powder together and set aside.
  3. In another bowl, cream butter, salt and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Slowly beat into the butter mixture the egg and the vanilla essence until well combined.
  5. Fold in flour and yogurt alternately until well combined.
  6. Finally add the chocolate chips.
  7. Line a muffin tin with paper casing and spoon batter into it until 70% full.
  8. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes or until golden.
  9. Remove he cupcakes from the tin and let them cool on a wire rack.