Sacher Cupcakes

Today, someone mentioned Sacher torte. And posted a recipe (german). And I did not have chocolate since... I can't even remember (if I don't count the chili in I made on the weekend). Here is my version of this old and famous cake!

Preparation time: with baking and cooling and all about 90 minutes
Suggested music: Oh, we need something from Austria again... Georg Kreisler maybe? (The song is very old and about poisoning pigeons in the park - not very vegan ;-) )

Ingredients:

• 150 g flour
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g margarine
• 2.5 tablespoons soy flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• pinch of salt
• 130 mL water
• about 4 tablespoons apricot jam for the filling
• 50 g semidark or dark chocolate + 2 tablespoons soy milk for glazing

What to do:

1. Put paper cupcake liners in your muffin pan and preheat the oven to 175 °C.
2. Mix all ingredients from flour to water to form a relatively sticky dough. 
3. Fill a tablespoon of dough in each of the wells. I got 11 half-filled ones. With a wet finger, press down the dough and flatten the surface. If your finger is wet, the dough won't stick to it.
4. Bake for 18 minutes (check with a toothstick). Take out of the muffin pan and let cool.
5. With a finger, poke a hole in each cupcake and fill with jam. Add a thin layer of jam on top of the cupcake.
6. Melt the chocolate in a hot water bath; take out of the bath and mix with the soy milk. Add a layer of this ganache on the cupcakes, being careful not to mix with the jam.
7. Chill cupcakes in the fridge until the ganache is a bit more solid.