Chocolate Skull Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
50g Caster Sugar
50g Soft Brown Sugar
80g Melted Butter
1 large Egg
100g Irish Yogurts Clonakilty Greek Style Natural Live Yogurt
180g Self Raising Flour
1 tbsp Baking Powder
15g Cocoa Powder
For the Icing
100g Icing Sugar
Water
Black Fondant
Method
For the Cupcakes
- Pre heat the oven to 180c fan
- Line the cupcake tin with cases
- In a large mixing bowl, mix together the melted butter and both sugars
- Add the yogurt (this makes the cupcakes light and fluffy)
- Add the egg and mix well
- Sift in the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. Give it a good mix
- Spoon the mixture into cases, about halfway, giving room for the mixture to rise
- Make 24 tin foil balls and add two to each cupcake space in the tin, making sure they are outside of the cupcake cases. This will make the skull shape
- Bake for 20 minutes
For the Icing
- When the cupcakes are cooled, make yor icing by sifting the icing sugar into a bowl and adding the water a little at a time until the desired consistency is reached
- Cover the surface of the cupcake with icing
- Cut out eye and mouth decorations from the black fondant and arrange on top of the icing
- Enjoy

