Kids love Chocolate Cupcakes and this delicious recipe is simple enough for them to make! I think grown-ups will be all over them too!
I don’t know about your children but whenever mine want to bake it invariably has to involve chocolate!
Well I say that, my son has only ever baked one cake at home (chocolate) for a science lesson, but my daughter is a very keen baker and if it doesn’t involve chocolate she’s not happy!
With the summer holidays having already started for some and about to start this week for others I thought it would be good to share this easy Chocolate Cupcakes recipe with you.
I adapted it from the The Complete Cookbook (Colour Library Books 1988) a recent charity shop find and changed the topping which wasn’t very child friendly!
I think children of all ages will be able to have a go at these chocolate cupcakes with just a little extra help for the very young. My 10 year daughter made recently on her own
Why not invite your children’s friends around to help and then they can have a tea party in the garden or take the cakes off on a picnic.
Not only are these cakes simple to make but they taste really good and very chocolatey!
Hopefully they will encourage your children to venture into further culinary adventures in the kitchen if they’ve not had much experience until now.
How long will these cupcakes keep for?
If you store the Chocolate Cupcakes in an airtight container then they will keep for at least 3 days. Can’t see them lasting 3 days uneaten though LOL!
More Child Friendly Recipes
- Spelt Banana Bread – Fab Food 4 All
- Chocolate Drizzle Flapjack – Fab Food 4 All
- Easy Chocolate Orange Cake – Fab Food 4 All
- Easy Halloween Cupcakes – Fab Food 4 All
- How to Make Fondant Rose Biscuits – Fab Food 4 All
- Cheese Scones – Tinned Tomatoes
- Easy Bake Sale Brownies – Feeding Boys and a Firefighter
- Home Made Fab Ice Lollies – Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
- Plant Pot Bread – A Mummy Too
- No Bake Simple and Effective Castle Cake – Fuss Free Flavours
- Mars Bar Krispies – Greedy Gourmet
I’m sure you and your kids will absolutely love these moist and delicious chocolate cupcakes!
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Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 85 g Self-raising flour
- 30 g Cocoa powder
- 115 g Soft margarine
- 115 g Caster sugar
- 2 Large eggs
Chocolate Topping
- 100 g Dark chocolate
- Large knob of unsalted butter
- Smarties/sweets to decorate
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180⁰C.
- Line 2 cup cake trays with 18 paper cake cases (the small ones ie not muffin size).
- Sieve the flour and cocoa into a bowl and add all the other ingredients.
- Mix together with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
- Spoon into the paper cake cases.
- Bake on the middle shelf for 13 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean or cakes spring back to the touch.
- Allow the cakes to sit for a couple of minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
- To make the topping break the chocolate up into a glass bowl with the butter and melt it over a pan of simmering water stirring with a wooden spoon.
- Use a teaspoon to decorate the cakes with the chocolate topping, giving a little swirl with the back of the spoon to spread it out evenly and then add a Smartie/sweet to finish.
Irene Wright
you said the magic word first – CHOCOLATE!!
And, cupcakes, I can eat anytime.
Must try this at home!!
Camilla
Great – enjoy:-)
jrhymer
These are delicious – I use your recipe and make them with my children often 🙂
Sally - My Custard Pie
They look lovely and gooey 🙂
Camilla
They are:-)
bev
Now they do look delish!
sarah hill wheeler (@hill_wheeler)
I love the fact that this is an 1980s recipe from a Charity Shop find…have been trawling ebay myself for a copy of my old school cookery text book! Some times the classics really are the best. Love the photos and links to other child friendly recipes too.
Camilla
Thank you, good luck finding your text book!
Heather Haigh
They look lovely and gooey just as chocolate cakes should. mmm
Camilla
Thanks they were very good:-)
Lucy Parissi
Yeah both my kids would prefer it if every single thing I make either is made of chocolate or has chocolate frosting on it at the very least. Sometimes chocolate is essential!
Camilla
Not just my kids then:-)
Paul Wilson
They look soooo good.
Camilla
Thank you, they were:-)
Paul Wilson
I was gonna ask you to send the leftovers before they melted!
Fish Fingers for tea
You can’t beat a good chocolate cupcake! Always tasty and fun for the kids to do themselves (or at least with minimal adult supervision!). Thank you for mentioning my Danish pastries!
Camilla
Pleasure Sian:-)
angela - Garden Tea Cakes and Me
Lovely little cakes, when my niece visits she always wants to bake chocolate cakes too.
Angela
Camilla
Thank you, has to be a girl thing – we need chocolate:-)