Chocolate And Chili Cupcakes

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup sweet butter, softened
• 1 cup superfine sugar
• 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
• 4 tablespoons dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons dried chipotle powder
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1/2 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons tia maria
• 1/2 cup sweet butter, softened

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°. place 18 baking cups in muffin pans.
• 2 in a large bowl, combine the first 7 cupcake ingredients; beat with an electric mixer until smooth, 2-3 minutes; stir in chocolate chips.
• 3 spoon batter into the cups; bake 20 minutes.
• 4 remove pans from the oven and cool for 5 minutes; remove cupcakes and cool on a rack.
• 5 make the frosting: blend all the frosting ingredients together in a food processor.
• 6 spread the frosting on the cooled cupcakes.