Chilli and Chocolate Cupcakes

Well this was an interesting idea of mine. Having never tried this before we completely made this recipe up as we went along. (or more copying the Green Tea recipe)

You will need:

120ml water
Flaked Chilli
3 table spoons Chocolate Powder
100g plain flour
140g caster sugar
40g unsalted butter at room temperature
1 egg

Icing:

250g icing sugar, sifted
Flaked chilli
80g unsalted butter at room temperature
25ml water

Dark Chocolate
Red food dye

Method:

- Put about a teaspoon of chilli into a cup of boiled water (and when I say a teaspoon don't be adventurous and put in about five like us, that was a massive mistake)

- Put the flour, sugar, chocolate, and butter into a bowl and mix until everything is combined.

-  Mix in the egg into the flour mixture.
- Add about half the water to the mixture

- Continue mixing for a couple more minutes until the mixture is smooth.

- Bake at 170 degrees oven until golden

For the icing: 

- Beat together the icing sugar, butter until creamed. 
- Now half the mixture

- Slowly pour in the water and finish mixing when the mixture is all fluffy into half of it, then add the food dye
- For the other half melt the chocolate and mix into the other half

- When the cupcakes are cold, spoon the frosting into a piping bag, and decorate the cakes.