Swiss Choc-filled Cupcakes

Nam's Facebook status says..."Nam & Hannah made Swiss choc-filled cupcakes. Way to rock a psych degree"..Just in case you are wondering, NO! They don't teach you how to bake in a psych degree.....but since all the busyness is over..there is finally time to bake, baKe, BAKE!

If you're seriously considering learning how to bake, you must at least master a basic butter cupcake..and after trying heaps..this one is one of the easiest..and tastiest! (Just remember the number 110 for the recipe).

Once you master a basic cupcake, you can play around with it...and today, we added Swiss choc in the center..so that when you bite...the chocolate will come oozing out...yum....~

Recipe for basic cupcake! Its the same recipe i used for the bake sale last year (read here and here)

• 110g butter
• 110g self raising flour
• 110g Castor sugar
• 2 tablespoon milk
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder (optional)

Method:
1. Use mixer to mix butter and sugar...

2. Once its fluff-refer to picture (or when you hold your mixing bowl upside down, the batter doesn't fall off)...add in the eggs, vanilla essence and milk. You can continue using the mixer, but stick to 1-3..not 5 (the speed)!

3. Add in flour & baking powder...i like to do this part manually, with a spatula..but if you think you're not up to it...then use the mixer, again, low speed please!

4. Mixed all the ingredients till you get a smooth texture...then spoon 1 tablespoon into cupcake paper thingy...(how much you need to spoon depends on the size of your cupcake paper)

5. Slice a piece of choc about 1cm X 1cm and just pop it on the top. (note: you can increase the size of your chocolate as you increase the size of your cupcake, some people just pop on a Hersley kisses choc in the center, but your cupcake needs to be quite big, if you want to do this)

6. Preheat oven at 190 Celsius..and bake for 15-20 mins...

There you go! Easy peasy!