Cauldron cake

I thoroughly enjoyed making these cute cauldron cupcakes for this month's Baking Eggless challenge suggested by Archana of 'The mad scientist's kitchen'.For the chocolate cupcakes,I have used white vinegar as the egg substitute and the cake turned soft and fluffy.The most challenging part was making the chocolate handles.It lasted only for few minutes but then it started to bend.The cake tasted fabulous and we all liked it.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour	¾ cup
Sugar	½ cup
Baking soda	½ tsp
Cocoa	2 tblsp
Salt	a pinch
White vinegar	½ tblsp
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Oil	¼ cup
Water	½ cup

For the filling:
Butter	4 tblsp
Icing sugar	1/4 cup
Vanilla essence	½ tsp
whipping cream	2 tblsp
For the Chocolate icing:
Butter	1/2 cup
Icing sugar	1 ½ cup
Cocoa	1 tblsp
Vanilla essence	½ tsp

Method:

For the Cupcake:

• Preheat oven to 180 º C.
• Sift flour,cocoa,baking soda and salt.keep aside.
• Mix oil,water,vinegar and vanilla essence in a bowl.Pour this mixture to the sifted dry ingredients and mix till everything comes together.Add little extra water if the mixture is stiff.
• Pour the batter evenly on the muffin pan lined with paper liners and bake at 180 º C for 18-20 mins or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.Allow to cool.

For the Filling and icing:

• For the filling,beat butter and icing sugar till light and fluffy.Add vanilla essence and whipping cream and beat till fluffy.
• For the icing,beat butter and sugar till fluffy.Add cocoa and vanilla essence and beat till desired consistency is reached for piping.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and keep in the freezer.
• For the chocolate handles,melt baking chocolate in a double boiler.Fill it in a small cone made using parchment paper and pipe handles on the baking sheet and freeze till assembling the cake.

Assembling the cake:

• Take a small portion from the center of each cupcake and fill it with the prepared icing.
• Pipe the chocolate icing on the top of each cupcake.
• Peel the chocolate handles from the sheet and fix on each cupcake and serve.