Ingredients
For 1000 g
For the cupcakes
110g
QimiQ Sauce Base
178g
All purpose flour
12g
Baking soda
10g
Cocoa powder
116g
Sugar
41g
Egg(s)
120ml
Vegetable oil
110ml
Buttermilk
8.5g
Nielsen-Massey Bourbon Vanilla Paste
24g
Red food coloring
12ml
Vinegar
For the chocolate topping
85.5g
QimiQ Classic, chilled
85.5g
QimiQ Whip, chilled
34g
Sugar
3.4ml
Lemon juice
5g
Vanilla extract
12g
Corn syrup, light
14g
Ghirardelli cocoa powder 15-17%
5.8g
Nonfat milk powder
10g
Dark chocolate (40-60 % cocoa), melted
Preparation
- Pre-heat the oven. Bake time in a silicon cup mold 18 min at 350° F.
- Sift the flour, baking soda and cocoa powder.
- Whip the sugar and eggs until frothy. Add the QimiQ Sauce Base while whisking.
- Add the oil slowly until fully incorporated. Add the buttermilk, vanilla, food coloring and vinegar.
- At slow speed add the sifted dry ingredients and mix until well blended.
- Fill the greased cup pans or silicon molds and bake. Allow to cool.
- For the chocolate topping: mix the chilled QimiQ Classic and QimiQ Whip with the sugar in a mixer at slow speed for 2 minutes and at high speed until the mixture is smooth.
- Add the lemon juice, vanilla and corn syrup and blend well.
- Mix the cocoa and milk powder and add slowly while the mixer is at slow speed. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl.
- Add the melted chocolate and turn the mixer to high speed. Mix until smooth and the desired volume has been reached.
- Fill the cream into a piping bag and pipe onto the cupcakes. Decorate with berries and powder sugar to serve.