Valentine Chocolate & Strawberry Cupcakes
Valentine Chocolate & Strawberry Cupcakes — a Dawn Foods recipe, makes 42 cupcakes. Uses Dawn Dark Devil’s Chocolate Genoese Cake Base 12.5 kg.
- mixing time (cupcake base, slow speed)
- 1 min
- mixing time (cupcake base, medium speed)
- 3-4 min
- mixing time (cupcake base, slow speed, after water)
- 1 min
- baking temperature
- 170 °C
- baking time
- 22-25 min
- mixing time (frosting, medium speed)
- 4 min
- freezing time (piped frosting)
- 30 min
Ingredients
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| White or Red Cupcake Cases | 42 pcs |
| Dawn Dark Devil’s Chocolate Genoese Cake Base 12.5 kg | 1000 g |
| Dawn Strawberry Frosting | 1500 g |
| Dawn Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Coating | 600 g |
| Dawn Glossy Icing - White | 120 g |
| Water | 620 g |
| Heart shape and/or red sugar sprinkles (for decoration) | |
| Vegetable oil | 110 g |
| Pink & red food colouring |
Method
Cupcake Bases: Place the Dark Devils Genoese Base, 420 g water and vegetable oil into a mixing bowl fitted with a beater.
Cupcake Bases: Mix for 1 minute on slow speed and then a further 3-4 minutes on medium speed.
Cupcake Bases: While mixing on slow speed, stream in 200 g water over 1 minute.
Cupcake Bases: Scrape down and mix for a further 1 minute on slow speed.
Cupcake Bases: Deposit 40 g into white cupcake cases.
Bake: Bake in a deck oven at 170 °C for 22-25 minutes.
Finish: Place the Strawberry Frosting into a mixing bowl fitted with a beater and mix on medium speed for 4 minutes (until light and smooth).
Finish: Place the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a large plain nozzle.
Finish: Pipe a large bulb of the frosting onto each cupcake (use a wet palette knife to smooth if needed).
Finish: Place into the freezer for 30 minutes (or until the frosting is firm).
Finish: Heat the Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Coating to a dipping consistency.
Finish: Dip each of the cupcakes into the coating, ensuring that the frosting is covered.
Finish: Allow the coating to set.
Finish: Heat the White Glossy Icing (this can be kept white or coloured with pink and/or red colouring).
Finish: Drizzle the warmed icing over the cupcakes and decorate with the sugar sprinkles.
Finish: Place the finished cupcakes into red cupcake cases (optional).
Dawn Foods recipe. Quantities and method as published by the manufacturer for its customers; test the formula under your own conditions before production.