How to make Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

You will need:

For the Cupcakes:

175g Self Raising Flour

175g Caster Sugar

175g Margarine

3 Eggs

2 tbsp Cocoa Powder

2 tbsp Orange Juice

The zest of an Orange

For the buttercream:

175g icing sugar

75g Unsalted butter

1 tbsp Cocoa Powder

1 tbsp Orange Juice

Method:

1. For the cupcakes; firstly in a bowl, cream together your margarine and sugar.

2. Then add your eggs, orange juice and orange zest and mix well.

3. Then add the flour and cocoa powder and mix until well combined.

4. Then divide your mixture between 12 cupcake cases, and bake in a pre-heated oven at Gas Mark 5, 190C or 170C fan assisted for about 16 to 20 mins.

5. For the buttercream; cream together the icing sugar, cocoa powder and butter.

6. Then gradually add the Orange juice in until it is a spreadable consistency. Then put into the piping bag and pipe on to the cupcakes.