Black forest brownie cupcakes
Dense and chocolatey dark chocolate brownie cupcakes studded with Amarena cherries with light and fluffy mascarpone, whipped cream and forest fruit topping. Amarena cherry and shaved chocolate is the cherry on the cake.
- 250 g dark chocolate (roughly chopped)
- 85 g butter
- 120 ml milk
- 2 egg (large)
- 250 g AP flour (sieved)
- 25 g cocoa (sieved)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 150 g sugar (brown, soft)
- 10 cherry (Amarena or fresh cherries, roughly chopped)
- 12 cherry (Amarena, for decorating (adding on top))
- 20 g chocolate (dark or milk, to shave on top)
- 250 g mascarpone cheese
- 300 ml double cream (or whipping cream or heavy cream)
- 400 g forest fruit (frozen ( 1 pack, about 400g) or fresh if you have, cherries, blackberries, black currant, blueberries)
- 40 g sugar (powdered)
- 80 g sugar (granulated, white)
Prepare cupcake baking tin and line it with cupcake liners, set aside.
Defrost your frozen fruit and drain it.
Add it to a medium pot together with sugar. Mix.
Cook it and stir from time to time until the fruit mixture starts to thicken and water evaporates.
It should take about 10-12 min. When it is ready, let it cool down completely and then place into a fridge.
If you are using fresh fruit, the cooking time can be slightly different.
Preheat an oven to 160C fan (320F).
In a small pot melt butter and chocolate and once done, let it cool completely.
Add milk and eggs and stir well.
In a separate bowl mix cocoa, flour, baking powder and sugar.
Add chocolate and butter mixture to the flour and cocoa mixture and stir until you can not see any lumps of flour or cocoa.
Stir in chopped Amarena cherries.
Using a cookie scoop or a spoon, divide the mixture between the 12 cupcake liners.
Bake for about 22-25 min.
When ready, remove it from the baking tin and place it on a cooling rack so the cupcakes can cool down completely.
Add mascarpone cheese, powdered sugar and whipped cream into a large bowl.
Whip all ingredients together until light and stiff.
Stir in the black forest fruit jam.
Decorate your cupcakes with the topping as you wish.
Add Amarena cherries on top of every cupcake.
Sprinkle shaved chocolate on top.
Store the cupcakes in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Bring the cupcakes to room temperature before serving.
Enjoy!