Chocolate orange cupcakes

Preparation time 5 mins, cooking time 20 mins . Oven temp: 170degrees

Ingredients: For sponge mix:

100g self raising flour, 140g castor sugar,40g room temp. butter, 20g cocoa powder

120mls milk, 1 egg, 1 teasp orange flavouring

For topping:

250g icing sugar , 80g soft butter , 3 tabsps milk , 1 teasp whatever foodcolouring you would like to use

Method: place flour, sugar, cocoa powder and butter into a bowl and mix until it looks like grains of sand.

Whip milk, egg and orange flovouring in a separate jug,

Add liquid to dry mixture and beat fast and quick, be careful not to over mix.

Place mixture into about 12 paper cases and bake in oven for 20 mins.

To make topping put icing sugar and butter into mixer and mix slowly at first .Up the speed when you add milk and colouring and mix until smooth. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with silver balls ar any christmas decoraions that you wish.