Cherry chocolate cupcakes

This weekend was Hannahs birthday and since all her birthdays are super important I made some cupcakes for her :) I like using toffee but have yet to be able to master it, practice makes perfect!!

Cherry chocolate cupcakes

250g butter

200g dark chocolate

2 C caster sugar

1 C water

2 Tsp instant coffee granules

1/3 C milk

1 1/2 C flour

1/2 C self raising flour

1/4 C cocoa

2 eggs

Ganache

1/3 C cream

200g dark chocolate, chopped

Toffee

1C sugar

1/2 C water

fresh cherries

1. Preheat oven to 170C, line 18 hole standard muffin pans with paper cases

2. Combine butter, chocolate, sugar, water, milk and coffee in a large saucepan. Stir over a low heat until smooth. Leave to cool.

3. Stir sifted flours and cocoa then add the eggs. Whisk all together with the chocolate mixture.

4. Pour 1/4 C of mixture into each paper case.

5. Bake for around 40 mins and turn out to cool.

6. To make the ganache bring the cream to the boil in a small saucepan pour over chopped chocolate. Stir until smooth, cover and refrigerate for 30mins. Beat with electric mixture until light and fluffy.

7. Spread generously over each cupcake.

8. To make the toffee for the toffee curls put the water and sugar in a saucepan. Stir over a low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Once dissolved bring to the boil and simmer over a low heat until golden. Set up a rolling pin (or other round tube) covered in baking paper. Then drizzle toffee over the rolling pin with the back of a wooden spoon to kind of make a half circle of toffee. Then let them cool at room temperature then pull of the paper.

9. Arrange 1 or 2 cherries on the top of the cupcake then top with 2 of the toffee curls.