Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

Experimenting

So you know that bbc GoodFood lemon cake recipe I keep banging on about?? Well I decided to experiment a little and use an orange instead! 

I always associate oranges with Christmas and as it is only around the corner, these chocolate orange cupcakes are perfect for those long winter nights! 

So the bbc GoodFood recipe makes one cake or you can use it to make 12 big muffin sized cupcakes! Yummy! These cupcakes are flavoured naturally with orange zest and orange syrup. I then made a simple chocolate buttercream using cocoa powder, which gave a great dark chocolate contrast to the zingy orange! 

Remember those molds I made? Well I thought it might be good time to try them out! I made some orange coloured sugarpaste to go with the flavour of the cupcakes and made several different cupcake 'toppers'.

I also decorated the buttercream with edible glitter (becoming my favourite decoration) and silver and pearlised dragees (balls). 

It was a lot harder then I thought it would be to make the little sugarpaste toppers! It was very difficult to get the mold out perfectly and all of them required some form of trimming or neatening! 

 

These three are my favourites! These cupcakes taste so delicious! Perhaps if you are near Nottingham you should drop me a bell and see if there are any left to eat!

P.s. All these photos are taken by my boyfriend Chris Lane. A professional videographer and photographer. 

Thanks for reading!