Coka-Cola Cup Cakes

Ingredients:240gr plain flour
180gr white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
100gram mini marshmallows
220g butter
2 tb cocoa powder or powdered cooking chocolate
1/2 cup coca cola (I used diet coke - ha!)

To ice
200g butter, softened
1/2 cup milk
400g icing mixture

Method:
In a saucepan mix the coca cola, cocoa powder and butter over a simmering heat.  Dissolve butter and then take off the heat and set aside to cool.
When the chocolate and coke mix is cool, preheat oven to 180 degrees c

In a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, vanilla and eggs, beat until smooth and light.
Add the chocolate cola mixture and then the marshmallows
Pour into small cupcake papers (I have used Robert Gordon mini upright ones - if using regular papers place them in a muffin tray) and place in oven for 15-20 minutes.  Allow to cool.

To prepare the icing, divide the butter into half.

Place the butter into your mixer and beat until smooth.  Add half the icing mxture and gradually add a little milk until you get a stiff yet creamy consistency.  Take half the mixture out and set aside.  Add red food colouring to the remainder and mix through.  Set aside and clean your mixer and blade.

Then repeat with butter creaming process and adding the remaining icing mixture and 2 tb of cocoa.

In your piping bag or ziplock bag, layer your icing on to close to the nozzle/corner. Cut corner off ziplock bag or attach nozzle and ice like you like!