Chocolate explosion cakes

I fancy making some cake so I looked at some different recipes and found one that looked really good. It was the recipe I used for my mums birthday cake, I made these before my mum's birthday cake and that is why she asked me to make her cake with this recipe.

For the cupcakes I used:

225g (8oz) unsalted butter

225g (8oz) caster sugar

3 medium eggs

2 tbsp condensed milk

225g (8oz) self raising flour

25g (1oz) cocoa powder

100g (3 1/2 oz) milk chocolate, melted

50g (1 3/4 oz) mini marshmallows

100g (2 1/2oz) chocolate chips

For the icing I used:

Vanilla frosting

Chocolate frosting

Assorted chocolate

1. Preheat the oven to 170c, gas mark 3. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Cream together the butter and sugar in a bowl, add the eggs and condensed milk, then use an electric whisk to mix on a high speed until you have a smooth batter.

2. Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix again until the batter is thick, then add the melted chocolate. Spoon about 1 tbsp of batter into the bottom of each case, then sprinkle over a few marshmallows and chocolate chips.

3. Cover with around 1 tbsp with batter and spread to the edges of the cases using the back of a spoon. Bake in the over for around 15-18 minutes, the makes may still be squidgy when you first take them out because of the melted marshmallows. Leave to cool.

4. Fill the piping bag with vanilla frosting on one side and chocolate frosting on the other side. Pipe a swirl of frosting on top of each cupcake, starting at the outside and swirling around until you reach the middle. Decorate according to your taste with pieces of chopped up chocolate.

A lot of people wanted this recipe so I thought I'd share it with everyone!!

Katie