Galaxy Chocolate Cupcakes
Calling all Galaxy chocolate lovers, these deliciously rich and indulgent Galaxy Chocolate Cupcakes are the perfect recipe for you!With a surprise Galaxy ganache filling, they're topped with creamy Galaxy buttercream and a square of Galaxy salted caramel. Did someone say Galaxy!? 😅
Ingredients
Chocolate cupcakes
- 180 g Margarine or unsalted butter I use Stork Original
- 180 g Caster sugar
- 2 large Eggs At room temperature
- 150 g Self-raising flour
- 30 g Cocoa powder
Galaxy chocolate ganache
- 100 g Galaxy Smooth Milk
- 75 ml Double Cream
Galaxy chocolate buttercream
- 100 g Galaxy Smooth Milk
- 250 g Salted butter I use Lurpak Slightly Salted
- 300 g Icing sugar
- 30 g Cocoa powder
Decoration
- 100 g Galaxy Chocolate (Smooth milk / Caramel / Salted Caramel) Broken into 12 squares
Instructions
Make the chocolate cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Line a cupcake baking tin with 12 cupcakes cases.
- Beat the margarine (or butter) and sugar together until creamy.
- Mix in the eggs one at a time.
- Add the flour and cocoa powder and fold together until smooth.
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcakes cases, filling each one roughly two-thirds full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Transfer to a wire cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
Make the Galaxy chocolate ganache and fill the cupcakes
- Finely chop the Galaxy chocolate (the smaller the chunks the better) and place in a glass bowl.
- Heat the cream in a small saucepan set over low heat until it's piping hot, but not yet boiling.
- Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and leave to sit for 20 seconds. Now slowly stir until the chocolate melts and the ganache is smooth.
- Once the cupcakes have cooled, scoop out the middle of each using a cupcake corer, the base of a piping nozzle or a teaspoon.
- Fill each cupcake with a heaped teaspoon of Galaxy chocolate ganache.
Make the Galaxy chocolate buttercream
- Melt the Galaxy chocolate in the microwave in 30-second blasts until smooth. Set aside to cool.
- In a large bowl beat the butter until really soft and pale in colour.
- Sift in the icing sugar and cocoa powder into the bowl, and beat together until creamy and smooth.
- Now pour in the melted Galaxy chocolate and fold together until combined.
Decorate the cupcakes
- Pipe buttercream swirls on top of the cupcakes (see notes above on how to pipe).
- Decorate each cupcake with a square of Galaxy chocolate. I also added a little gold star for extra cuteness!
Notes
Store your Galaxy Chocolate Cupcakes at room temperature, in an airtight container, for up to 3 days.
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