Revisiting Les Cupcakes (P. 128).
I made a half-recipe in a Nordic Ware mini popover pan. They baked for 18 minutes, resulting in twelve mini cupcakes using a #30 scoop.
As a final element I folded in an extra 20% (by weight) chocolate to the batter (bar, chopped). Half of the cakes were topped with three dark chocolate chips before baking, and the other half were topped with a dark chocolate ganache after cooling.
Verdict:
I’ll be keeping the addition of chocolate to the batter – it helped to bring the chocolate flavor forward. On top: chocolate chips for the win. Initially I was discouraged by the look of them, but that grew on me, and both DH and I felt it was the better version. Many thanks to @NannyBakes for the suggestion.
And because there was a little extra ganache and it’s June – well, strawberries.
