Mini chocolate cakes with strawberries and chocolate chips

These little chocolate cupcakes are so easy to make, with fresh strawberries and chocolate chips adding a delicious twist to a simple chocolate cake recipe. They’re soft, moist and full of chocolate flavour, made with everyday ingredients and hardly any effort. They keep well for several days and are always a favourite with children :).

Makes 12.

Ingredients for the mini chocolate cakes with strawberries and chocolate:

• 200 g plain flour
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 200 g caster sugar
• 60 g cocoa powder
• 135 ml sunflower or rapeseed oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 80 ml natural or Greek yoghurt
• 125 ml milk

You will also need:

• 200 g strawberries, hulled and quartered
• 50 g chopped dark chocolate or chocolate chips, for sprinkling

All ingredients should be at room temperature.

Crack the eggs into a bowl and add the sugar, vanilla extract, yoghurt, milk and oil. Whisk until combined. Sift the plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder directly into the mixture. Mix briefly, just until combined.

Line a muffin tin with paper cases and divide the batter evenly between them. Press the chopped strawberries into each cake, then sprinkle with the chopped chocolate or chocolate chips.

Bake the mini chocolate cakes with strawberries and chocolate at 175°C for approximately 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.

Enjoy!

And before baking: