Domestic Goddess

This is the first "celebrity chef" cupcakes that i bake. It's adapted from Nigella Lawson's How To Be a Domestic Goddess. It's a very simple and easy, and i don't even have to use my hand beaters to beat the batter, and it taste great and look elegant too! The original recipe calls for morello cherry jam, the first time when i bake this, i actually just use any cherry jam that i can find from the supermarket, and it taste great too. The 2nd time round, i lay my hand on morello cherry jam, but i think the normal black cherry one taste better! So i guess, it's really up to personal prefrence of the jam used.
* morello cherry is a kind of sour cherry *

Chocholate Cherry Cupcakes

125g unsalted butter
100g dark chocolate
300g cherry jam
150g caster sugar
pinch of salt
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
150g SR flour

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius, grease and line a 12 hole muffins pan
2. Put butter in a pan on the heat to melt. When almost melt, stir in darkchocolate. Take the pan off the heat, and gently stir with a wooden spoonuntil butter and chocolate are smooth and combine.
3. Leave the chocolate butter mixture to cool slightly, then add the jam,sugar, salt and eggs. Stir with wooden spoon until all is combine.
4. Sift flour over mixture, stir until combine.
5. Spoon mixture into the 12 hole muffins pan.
6. Bake in 180 degree Celcius oven for about 25 mins.
7. Cool cupcakes on a cake rack before spreading frosting on it.
   
   
   Frosting:
   
   100g dark chocolate
   100 ml double cream
   12 canned or fresh cherries

• Heat the cream in a saucepan.
• Break chocolate into small pieces, and combine with the cream.
• Bring it to boil, remove from heat, and whisked it until thick and smooth
• When cooled, spread it to the cooled cupcakes, and top with 1 cherry.

* If you're using normal black cherry jam, you can reduce the sugar to taste.

the cupcake is so moist and yum!