Chocolate raisin cupcakes

Dobby

12 years ago

In a previous post, I taught you how to bake without an oven. Today, I’d be giving you the recipe for the Chocolate raisin cupcakes I made with a pot. Pot baking involves the use of dry heat in baking. The baking process doesn’t burn the pot infact , it comes out clean. You just have to be cautious when handling the pot as it could get extremely hot.

• Servings: 15-20
• Prep time: 45 minutes
• Baking time: 35 minutes
• Total time: 1 hr 12 minutes
• Meal Type: Dessert

Ingredients

• 250g Butter/margarine

• 250g Granulated Sugar

• 4 Eggs whisked

• 3 tbsp. Browning

• 2 tbsp. Flavor Essence

• Raisins

• Rum/Brandy

• Queen cake Baking cups

• ½Kilo Wheat flour (all-purpose flour)

• 2 tbsp. Cocoa Powder

•1 tbsp. Baking powder

• 2 tbsp. Dark treacle

•1 tbsp. Milk essence or 175ml milk

Procedure:::

Step 1: Soak the raisins in Rum 5-6hours before baking. For me, I simply soak mine overnight. This serves as a preservative for the raisins and cake in general

Step 2: In a large bowl, beat the Butter till soft and gradually work in the sugar with a wooden spatula or mixer. Beat till the mixture becomes pale and fluffy

Step 3: Gradually pour in the beaten eggs and mix together

Step 4: Blend in the cocoa powder, milk/essence, Dark treacle, flavor, browning, raisins & rum, baking powder and mix.

Step 5: Now this is the tricky part…Fold in flour gradually and mix in a direction (either clockwise or anticlockwise if using a wooden spatula) so it doesn’t form lumps. Mix till you get a smooth paste.

Now to prepare the tins for baking

Step 6: For this recipe, I used baking sheets. If you don’t want to use those, you can simply grease the baking tins with a little margarine and dust with flour. This would make the cakes come out clean once done.