Chocolate cupcake with prunes

6 servings
1 hour 10 min

How to make a cupcake with prunes? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the fridge beforehand. Take large selected eggs. Cognac can be replaced with gin, rum and other similar alcoholic beverages. It is better to take prunes large without seeds. Use top grade flour.

Wash the prunes, dry and remove the bones, if any. Cut the dried fruit into small pieces. I just cut it in half.

Pour the prunes over the cognac and leave to brew for 20-30 minutes. If the prunes are very dry and hard, then first fill the prunes with boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Drain the water after, and cover the prunes with cognac.

Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Bitter chocolate can be replaced with dark chocolate.

In a bowl, combine the soft butter from room temperature and the sugar. Whisk everything with a mixer until fluffy.

Add the eggs one at a time, whisking the mass after each.

A lush homogeneous mass should be obtained.

Sprinkle the sifted flour with cocoa and baking powder and stir with a mixer.

Add prunes along with cognac, chocolate cut into small pieces to the dough and stir everything again with a spatula. Prunes and chocolate should be evenly distributed over the dough.

Place the dough in an oiled cupcake tin. I have a shape size of 21cm by 11cm. Bake a chocolate cupcake with prunes for about 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. The exact timing of baking depends on the specifics of your oven. I left the cupcake for another 10 minutes in a cooling oven.

Cool the finished muffin, remove from the mold and sprinkle with icing sugar if desired. Enjoy your meal!