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chocolate cream cakes

Beatriz Da Costa

Chocolate Cream Cakes — our version of a lunch-box classic — are filled with an irresistible vanilla foam and glazed with night chocolate. Serve these rich, moist cupcakes as a snack with red, ripe strawberries or just follow your impulse to gobble them up and wash them down with a glass of milk.

1 3/4 c. unsalted butter

1 tbsp. unsalted butter

2 c. all-purpose flour

two 1/two tbsp. all-purpose flour

ii i/4 c. whole milk

c. carbohydrate

i/2 c. dark brown sugar

1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa

ane/4 c. sour foam

three big eggs

iii tsp. pure vanilla extract

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. blistering soda

1 tsp. salt

one c. confectioners' sugar

nine oz. bittersweet chocolate

one one/2 tbsp. Vegetable shortening

Make batter: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Using a small brush, lightly coat 3 2 1/2-inch 6-cup muffin pans with melted butter. Dust with flour, tap out excess, and set aside. Place 2 cups flour, ane ane/4 cups milk, carbohydrate, brown sugar, cocoa, 3/four cup butter, sour foam, eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Beat using a mixer prepare on low speed until combined. Increment mixer speed to medium and continue to shell 3 more minutes.
Bake cakes: Carve up batter as betwixt prepared pans and bake on eye rack of oven until cake tops bound back when lightly touched, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in muffin pans on a wire rack 5 minutes. Utilize a knife to loosen cakes from pan sides. Invert cakes onto wire rack and cool completely.
Make cream filling: Whisk remaining milk and flour together in a medium saucepan until smooth. Place saucepan over medium heat and melt, stirring constantly, until thick, about v minutes. Remove from rut, cool to room temperature, and fix aside. Using an electric mixer set on high speed, beat out remaining butter and confectioners' saccharide together in a medium bowl until light. Add remaining vanilla, reduce mixer speed to medium, and slowly add cooled milk mixture. Crush 1 more minute.
Fill cakes: Make full a pastry handbag fitted with a long, narrow tip (we used a Bismark tube #230) with cream filling. Insert tip into bottom of cake and make full by gently moving tip from side to side while squeezing pastry bag, until cake begins to corking. Gently remove tip and return cake to wire rack. Fill remaining cakes and prepare wire rack over a baking pan.
Glaze cakes: In a double boiler prepare over simmering water, cook bittersweet chocolate and shortening together. Once melted, remove pan from oestrus and allow sit 3 minutes. Cascade about 1 tablespoon chocolate mixture on top of a cake. Use a small-scale spatula to glaze top and polish effectually sides until completely coated in a thin layer of chocolate. Echo with remaining cakes. Freeze 3 minutes, remove, and permit sit until chocolate has set up, well-nigh ane hr. Decorate cake tops with remaining cream filling, if desired.