Chocolate cupcake with cognac and blueberries

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. To make a chocolate cake with cognac and blueberries, we will need: blueberries, flour, sugar, cocoa, cognac, water, vegetable oil, soda, apple cider vinegar.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a bowl, mix flour, cocoa, sugar.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mix everything.

4. Step 4:

   

   Dilute vinegar and soda in water. Mix everything until the soda is completely dissolved. First, the liquid will become cloudy, so you need to stir it until it becomes transparent again.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour water with vinegar and soda and brandy into the flour mixture. Mix everything thoroughly so that there are no lumps.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into the dough.

8. Step 7:

   

   Mix thoroughly again until smooth. As a result, you should get a semi-thick fragrant dough.

9. Step 8:

   

   Wash the blueberries, remove the tails and dry them. Add the berries to the dough. Gently mix the berries into the dough, trying not to suppress them.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the dough into a cake pan. If the mold is silicone, then you do not need to lubricate it with oil. I have a form measuring 22 by 10. But either more or less will do. Bake the cake in a preheated 180 ° C oven for about 1 hour. Readiness to check with a skewer. It should come out dry.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cool the finished cupcake, remove from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Decorate the cupcake with mint (or lemon balm) and blueberries. Cut the cupcake into pieces and serve. Bon appetit!