Red wine, blueberry and chocolate brownie cupcakes

It's been a stressful couple of days.  I decided we needed chocolate and red wine.  Then thought - what better than brownies made with chocolate and red wine?  I also had some blueberries in the fridge so chucked them into the mix.  And used my silicone cupcake moulds rather than a brownie tin.  The result?  Red wine, blueberry and chocolate brownie cupcakes!  Sounds weird maybe, but tastes gooood.  Best served still warm with icecream!

Ingredients

2 eggs

3 ½ oz brown sugar
3 ½ oz caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract
4oz butter, melted
2 fl. oz red wine
3 oz self-raising flour
2 oz hot chocolate powder
1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt
4 oz blueberries

2 oz chocolate chips

For the glaze
2 oz chocolate chips

1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp red wine
½ tsp vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

1 tbsp hot chocolate powder

To decorate

2oz blueberries

Method 

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Grease 22 silicon cupcake moulds and place on a baking sheet.
2. In a large bowl whisk together the eggs, sugars and vanilla.
3. Whisk in the melted butter, followed by the wine.
4. Sift in the flour, hot chocolate powder, baking powder and salt and stir until the batter is smooth and thick.
5. Use two thirds of the batter to place a heaped teaspoonful of batter into each of the cupcake moulds.
6. Sprinkle with blueberries and chocolate chips, and press them into the batter slightly.
7. Use the remaining batter to place about half a teaspoonful of batter on top of the berries in each cupcake mould.
8. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
9. Meanwhile, make the glaze: place the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, and stir gently until melted.
10. Remove from the heat and add the wine, vanilla and salt, sift in the hot chocolate powder and stir until smooth.
11. While cooling in their moulds on a wire rack, pour a teaspoonful of the glaze over each cupcake and spread it to the edges so the tops are evenly coated.
12. Decorate each cupcake with a couple of blueberries and leave to cool before removing them from their moulds.