Chocolate orange cupcakes with cheesecake cream

Chocolate orange cupcakes with cheesecake cream

Eat these fudgy chocolate-orange cupcakes warm or cold – the chocolate-coated orange peel adds a sophisticated touch.

Chocolate orange cupcakes with cheesecake cream

Have you seen our epic Terry’s Chocolate Orange rocky road?

  • Serves icon Makes 9 cupcakes
  • Time icon Takes 20 minutes to make and 20 minutes to bake, plus cooling

Eat these fudgy chocolate-orange cupcakes warm or cold – the chocolate-coated orange peel adds a sophisticated touch.

Have you seen our epic Terry’s Chocolate Orange rocky road?

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
444kcals
Fat
28.1g (16.4g saturated)
Protein
6.2g
Carbohydrates
45.4g (37g sugars)
Salt
0.4g

Ingredients

  • 80g butter
  • 100g plain chocolate (with at least 70% cocoa solids)
  • 150g light muscovado sugar
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 80g plain flour, sifted
  • 150g tub Duchy Originals Organic Chocolate Coated Orange (from Waitrose and fine food stores)
  • 30g pecan nuts
  • 2 large pieces candied orange peel (we like Sundora Candied Peel, from major supermarkets)

For the cheesecake cream

  • 250g tub mascarpone
  • 1 tsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp icing sugar
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Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan170°C/gas 5. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with 9 paper muffin cases. Melt the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. (Alternatively, melt in a bowl in the microwave on high – 900W – for 1-2 minutes.) Stir to combine.
  2. Crumble the sugar into a large bowl to break down any lumps, then add the eggs. Using an electric hand whisk, whisk for about 5 minutes, until increased in volume, thick and mousse-like. Add the chocolate mixture and whisk until combined. Add a pinch of salt to the flour and sift into the bowl. Mix together with a wooden spoon. Roughly chop the chocolate orange peel pieces and nuts, and fold into the mixture.
  3. Spoon equal amounts into the muffin cases – it will seem quite generous but as it is a brownie-type mixture, it will sink a little on cooling. Bake for 20 minutes, until risen and firm. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.
  4. Slice away any white pith from the candied orange peel and very finely slice the peel into shreds. Decorate each cake with a few of the shreds.
  5. Make the cheesecake cream. Put the mascarpone in a bowl, sift in the cocoa powder and icing sugar and mix well. Serve in a small bowl with the cupcakes.

Nutrition

Calories
444kcals
Fat
28.1g (16.4g saturated)
Protein
6.2g
Carbohydrates
45.4g (37g sugars)
Salt
0.4g

delicious. tips

  1. You could decorate the cakes with a dusting of cocoa powder instead of candied peel.

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