A rich chocolate brownie cupcake flavoured with Cherries, filled with a surprise cherry jam centre and topped with a cherry jam buttercream and chocolate coated cherry. It’s safe to say this Chocolate Cherry Brownie Cupcake is a chocolate and cherry lovers dream.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE THIS RECIPE
Sweet and indulgent | Rich chocolate and sweet cherries is such an indulgent flavour combination. It feels super grown up and although it’s 95% sugar, the cherry on top could kind of be put towards your five a day (if you eat 5 cupcakes)
Baking with Hot Chocolate | Learning that I could bake with Hot Chocolate was a huge game changer for me as Hot Chocolate can come in so many wonderful flavours, especially those from Whittard. After this recipe I wouldn’t be surprised if you were searching for your next flavour to bake with.
Picture Perfect | In this instagram age, although food is to be eaten, let’s be honest it’s although to be photographed, and these cupcakes are beautiful models. From the rich brownie sponge, the pretty pink buttercream swirl and the cute dipped cherry on top, they’re all ready for lights camera and then plenty of eating action!
WHAT ARE BROWNIE CUPCAKES?
If a brownie and a cupcake made children this is what they would become! Unlike cupcakes where the flour, butter and sugar ratio follows 1:1:1 these cupcakes side more with the brownie ratios and have a higher sugar content to butter (which is what gives them the sticky texture)
The method also follows the same process as Brownies with the butter and sugar being whisked together, followed by eggs, chocolate and finally folding through the flour. The one difference which lightens it up is the addition of milk!
THE BEST THINGS ABOUT BAKING WITH HOT CHOCOLATE POWDER
I’ve said countless times how much I love baking with Hot Chocolate. Not only is it the best substitute for cocoa powder but when its flavoured like the Whittard UK ones then it also doubles up as a flavouring essence. It’s a 2 for the price of 1 kinda ingredient!
THE WHITTARD CHERRY HOT CHOCOLATE
The Cherry Brownie Hot Chocolate is the newest limited edition flavour to hit the Whittard shelves, and it does not disappoint. The milk chocolate fusion of buttery brownie and sweet juicy cherry has to make it my favourite flavour of theirs yet!
The great added benefit is that it’s both Vegetarian and Vegan friendly, plus it’s Gluten Free so literally anyone and everyone can use it.
This edition is limited especially for Valentine’s Day and is available to buy online at whittard.co.uk now for just £9 a tub.
Whittard Hot Chocolate
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I would love it if you tagged me @mykitchendrawer on Instagram if you make these Cherry Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes. It’s the biggest honour to see my recipes come to life in your kitchen and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a message. Happy baking!
Cherry Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes
Ingredients
Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes
- 110 g butter melted
- 150 g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp Whittard Limited Edition Chocolate Cherry Hot Chocolate powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 120 ml milk
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 170 g plain flour
- 12 tsp cherry jam
Cherry Buttercream
- 150 g butter softened
- 300 g icing sugar
- 2 tbsp cherry jam
- 12 fresh cherries
- 100 g dark chocolate melted
Instructions
Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes
- Line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners and preheat your oven to 170C
- Add the butter and sugar to a bowl and mix until well combined
- Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla
- In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder and hot chocolate powder and mix well
- Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients bowl and fold it through to form a smooth batter
- Split the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases and bake for 20 minutes
- While its baking melt your dark chocolate in a bowl, then dip your 12 cherries into the melted chocoalte and leave on baking paper to set. Leave to one side.
Cherry buttercream
- Beat the butter and icing sugar together until smooth and fluffy then add the cherry jam and fold it through until the buttercream is tinted pink
- Fill a piping bag with your buttercream and pipe buttercream swirls onto your cupcakes then top each cupcake with a chocolate dipped cherry.
So yummy and moist! I made them with the frosting and just popped some cherry jam on top – they were lovely! I’m wanting to make them again next week and I’m wondering – how, if it’s possible, could I make this into a full sponge cake? Would love to make like a Victoria sponge-style cake with jam through the middle and a sprinkling of icing sugar on top 🙂 Any tips please on converting the recipe for a bigger bake? Thanks!
Author
Ah thank you so much Kirsty.
On my blog recipe you can click to increase or decrease the recipe. If you want to do something like a 2 or 3 layer sandwich cake I would consider doubling the recipe to get a good sized sponge layer.
Hope that helps and thanks again for baking from my blog 🙂