Chocolate orange cupcakes

INGREDIENTS:

For the cupcakes
¾ cup (115gms) plain flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
⅔ cup (150gms) tightly packed brown sugar
⅔ of a stick (⅓ cup/75gms) unsalted butter
⅓ cup (35gms) natural cocoa powder
¼ cup (65mls) vegetable oil
2 large eggs
3 small oranges, zested
½ cup orange juice
For the chocolate orange frosting
(200gms) unsalted butter at room temperature
2 & ½ cups (400gms) icing sugar
½ cup (50gms) natural cocoa powder
2 oranges zested
¼ cup (65mls) orange juice
½ teaspoon vanilla

DIRECTIONS:

To make the cupcakes
Pre-heat your oven to 340°F (170°C/150°C fan-forced). Line your muffin tins with patty pan or grease well with butter.
Sift the plain flour, baking powder and baking soda into a mixing bowl. Zest and juice the oranges.
Put the butter into a heat proof bowl and melt in the microwave. Sift in the cocoa powder and mix well.
Add the vegetable oil, orange zest and juice, eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until Just combined i.e. you can’t see any unmixed flour, Do not over mix or your will end up with flat rubbery cupcakes!
Divide the mix between the cupcakes. Bake for twenty minutes, or untill the top springs back when lightly pressed and a skewer inserted comes out clean …