Ricotta Chocolate Cupcake | Cashew Ricotta CupCake | Chocolate Cheese Cupcake| Cupcake Recipes

 
This time i paired with Rafeeda ,a sweet friend from The Big Sweet Tooth and she gave a super yummy ingredients as cashews and cheese.The recipe came out really perfect and i tried the cupcake with a cheese for the first time and happy with the outcome.Thanks Rafee for the wonderful ingredients and here comes the recipe.  I used ricotta cheese which i made in home with leftover milk and this is the first cheese i made in home.will post that soon and the recipe goes to Secretly Cooking Challenge by Priya Suresh.Usual semi sweet cocoa powder and i replaced butter and eggs with ricotta cheese which makes 4 cupcakes here.   Ingredients for making

1. All purpose flour -1 cup
2. Ricotta cheese- 1/2 cup
3. Sugar -1/4 cup
4. Cocoa powder -2 teaspoons
5. Baking powder -1/4 teaspoons
6. salt - a pinch
7. Cashews -1/4 cup finely chopped
8. vanilla essence -1 drop
9. Nuts and raisins

 
   How to make

• Take ricotta cheese and sugar in a large mixing bowl and using a balloon whisk or any other whisk ,beat it until it combines well.
• Add vanilla essence and again whisk well.
• In another bowl,sieve flour,cocoa powder and salt along with baking powder.Mix chopped cashews to it.
• Add the mixture little by little to the cheese mixture and make a dropping consistency batter,Add few teaspoon of milk if required.
• Take the cupcake liners out and fill half of the mixture.Top with desired nuts and raisins.I used chopped almonds here.
• Preheat the oven to 200 degree Celsius and bake the cupcakes for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes,remove from oven and cool all the cupcakes in a wire rack.
• Serve as it is or with desired frosting.

 
 
   Cooking tips#1Use store bought ricotta too.#2Use milk as half of the cheese if you do not want the cupcakes cheesy.#3Coating cashews is more important as it does not sink in the bottom.