Choc full cup cakes!

Ingredients:

4 oz butter softened
4 oz caster sugar
2 medium eggs
3 oz self raising flour
1 oz coco
3 oz white chocolate drops
1 oz chopped baking cherries (optional)


What you do:

1. Pre heat oven to 190C / 375 F / gas 5
2. Beat butter and sugar together together until light and fluffy.
3. Add the eggs to the bowl and sift in flour and coco.
4. Stir in the chocolate and cherries.
5. Carefully spoon mixture into cake cakes.
6. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes until the cakes have risen and are firm to the touch.
7. Put them on a wire rack to coo.

To make chocolate butter cream

6 oz Butter softened
4 tablespoons coco
3 tbsp hot water
12 oz icing sugar
Few drops of vanilla extract

1. Beat the butter in a bowl to soften.
2. In a different bowl put the coco and the water and mix it to make a paste.
3. Add the coco paste to the butter and sift in icing sugar and vanilla. Beat the icing until it is very smooth.
4. Wait until cakes are cold before you ice them (we were a bit too eager and our icing melted!)

What we thought:
"My goodness! That's a cake and a half!"
"These are so good, very rich though, I don't think I could eat more than three!"
"Why would you put cherries in a perfectly good chocolate cake?!"

Marks out of ten/
"11"
"20"
"10 for the cake none for the cherries!"