Chocolate Cupcakes in Orange Peels
Equipment
- Muffin pan
- Hand mixer
Ingredients
- 4 organic oranges
- 3 eggs
- 7 oz sugar (for the cupcakes)
- 1.5 oz sugar (for the frosting)
- 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
- 5 oz flour
- 1.5 oz cocoa
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 4.5 oz melted butter
- 5.33 oz cream cheese
- 5.33 oz cream
Instructions
- Halve three oranges and scrape the pulp out of the inside. Place the hollowed out orange peels in the molds of a muffin pan.
- Squeeze the juice of the oranges in a bowl. Add the eggs, 7 oz of sugar, and vanilla flavoring and mix everything with a hand mixer.
- Add the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and melted butter to the batter and mix everything again.
- Scoop the chocolate cupcake batter into the orange peels, stopping about ⅓ of an inch from the top of the orange half. Bake at 360°F for 25 minutes.
- Beat the cream cheese, cream, and remaining 1.5 oz of sugar until a whipped frosting has formed.
- Frost the cooled cupcakes with the whipped frosting and garnish with some orange zest.
