After seeing this post on Lucullian Delights, I made a mental note to pick up some prunes during my next trip to the grocery store. I brought home a pack of prunes over the weekend and wasted no time in trying Ilva’s recipe out.
(Recipe adapted from here)
Ingredients:
(For approximately 6 cupcakes)
4 oz Hershey's baking chocolate
2 Tbsp butter
1 egg
¼ cup brown sugar
6 Tbsp all purpose flour
7-8 prunes, chopped
A pinch of salt
Method:
In a microwave safe bowl, melt the chocolate and the butter. Mix well.
Whisk together the egg and sugar. Add to the slightly cooled chocolate-butter mixture and mix. Incorporate the flour into the batter and stir until smooth.
Toss in the chopped prunes and mix to bring everything together.
Spoon the batter into a muffin pan. (I used a 6-cup pan.)
Bake for 10 minutes or until set but still soft in the center. Serve warm.
Prunes are a fantastic addition to the recipe and the chocolate-prune combination was absolutely fabulous. In my opinion, the prunes helped to intensify the chocolate flavor. I know that I will be making this very often.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Chocolate And Prune Cupcakes
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I always think prunes and chocolate go well together.
This looks so yumm. Would love to have them for my coffee
moist cupcakes....
I've read that prune sauce is a good butter substitute in chocolate based desserts... These look so moist & fabulous.
Prunes probably made these muffins incredibly moist!!
Hi...
This is a very rich cup cake. Prunes make them as a healthy one. Nice pictures. YUM!
hi, just visited ur nice site and enjoyed reading ur posts & recipes.ur choc & prune cupcakes look so delish.
the muffin..cupcake queen is back!!...that looks super chocolatey...
rajitha
What a unique combo-chocolate and prunes, yummy, very mouth watering for a chocoholic like me.
I just ate but suddenly I am hungry again! What a fantastic recipe. I want to try this too.
I would not have though to use prunes with chocolate but these look and sound really good!
ooh, what a delicious cupcake! prune chocolate combo looks perfect.
These look really good. Reminds me more of brownies than cupcakes.:)
That looks so moist! Good job. Never had the prune and chocolate combination before...
yummy pic! :)
Fantastic!
And it only took 2 Tbsp butter?
Hai TBC, hey thanks for the comment..
Divine looking cake and prunes make the cake moist.Thanks for sharing the recipe and I have bookmarked it.
These look so tasty :)!
HC- it was the first time I was trying out this combination. I must say it tasted really very good.:)
Rachel- yes, that it was ! :-)
Laavanya- I too have heard that. I'm a bit hesitant to buy a whole jar to experiment with.
These were really good. We're gonna have a potluck at work. I'm wondering whether I should make these...:-)
Valli- yes, it did. And I loved the intense chocolatey flavor too.
Sukanya- it was not loaded with calories. I did cut down on the butter and the eggs that were used in the original recipe. But it was still incredibly moist and tasty.:D
Sweetbites- thanks for visiting!:)
Rajitha- where are you??? you've become so lazy that u can't even log in!:-(
Hey, did u catch the first episode of Giada's new show? ;-)
Mitr- I'm a chocoholic too. But the husband does'nt care much for it. So that means there's more for me! ;-)
Lisa- thank you.:)
Kevin- it tasted really good too.:).I'm gald I came across Ilva's recipe.
Uma- thank you! :-)
Aparna- thanks.:)
Nags- thanks.:D
Rashmi- yes! The original recipe actually uses a little more. But I can never bring myself to add more than a certain amount.:D
Tina- you are welcome! and that recipe is on my list now.:)
Shibani- I hope you get a chance to try it out.:-)
Sophie- thank you.:)
Anudivya- almost didn't see you there! :-(
Thank you.:-)
Heard prunes are storehouse of iron..Nice delicious n tempting.
Prunes and chocolate pair looks sweet.I'm gonna give a try ,i bake a lot with chocolate:)
look what i missed until now!! awesome looking cupcakes, TBC!
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Divya, Yasmeen and JZ- thank you.:D