Cooking from my Calendar – February

February’s recipe on the calendar is chocolate hazelnut cupcakes.

Now. I am a fan of chocolate, I am a fan of hazelnuts (well, Nutella which is what is in the icing) and I am a fan of cupcakes so there’s not really a lot that can go wrong here is there?

No! No there isn’t. These were great so this is basically just a lot of pictures of them.

Baking info: cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, flour, baking powder, combine, add melted chocolate, put them in the oven. I cooked mine for 24 minutes. The frosting is Nutella, cream cheese and icing sugar. Now. Picture time.

Here is a picture of when I put them all in the cake cases:

Here they are fresh out of the oven:

I was so proud of my icing that I took a picture of them before I sprinkled hazelnuts over the top:

And here are the finished cupcakes:

Do you like my new plate? It’s from Tesco and it was reduced! I decided that I needed to have more than three display plates really…

So. The verdict? These are really tasty, look great and are easy to make. I know it’s only the second recipe from the calendar but it’s my favourite so far.