I've been doing more experimenting in the kitchen to develop my cupcake menu, and decided I to adapt my delicious chocolate cupcake recipe to make a favourite of mine and what appears to be a favourite of many other people, chocolate orange cupcakes!
To tweak the recipe I added the grated zest of an orange to the chocolate cupcake batter, and then for the chocolate ganache butter cream I added the juice of half an orange. Unfortunately this made the icing a little runny and even after chilling it to pipe, when left at a room temperature it became a little messy! But what could be better than a messy cupcake!
I topped the cakes with a Terry's dark chocolate orange segment, and when eaten first, the orange from the chocolate bought out the flavour of the icing, which was a nice touch. I would have liked a stronger flavour in the icing, so next time I will use some orange oil or extract to give a deeper and better flavour.
My next experiment will be with mint chocolate chip cupcakes, so watch this space!
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