Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes
Cupcakes:
1 1/4 cup of self rising flour
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup oil
3/4 cup of buttermilk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour and cocoa. In a separate bowl, blend together egg, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a mixer. Alternate flour/cocoa mixture and buttermilk in the egg mixture. Starting and finishing with flour/cocoa mixture. Scoop into a muffin tin with muffin liners. Bake for 20 minutes. While the cupcakes are baking start on the icing.
Strawberry Icing
2 sticks butter, softened
4 cups of powdered sugar
2 teaspoons of meringue powder
1 cup of diced strawberries
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Cream butter. Then add powder, vanilla, and two cups of powdered sugar. Mix until combined. Mix in the rest of the powdered sugar. When fully combined add strawberries.
Melt chocolate and dip strawberries in to make chocolate covered strawberries.
Strawberry Compote
2 cups strawberries
dash lemon juice
dash of sugar
In a pot cook down strawberries until they are mush
Chocolate Ganache
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup heavy cream
Heat heavy cream and pour cream over chocolate chips. Stir until smooth.
Assembly
After the cupcakes are done baking and cooling, cut hole in cupcake. Fill the hole with compote. Top with icing. Drizzle on ganache and top with strawberry. Enjoy!
