Kefir cupcake with cocoa

Break eggs into a wide bowl and add sugar. Melt butter and pour in liquid form with eggs and sugar. Beat everything together with a mixer, starting at low speed and gradually increasing the speed. You should get a homogeneous liquid mixture without sugar crystals.

Pre-sift the flour. Add half the sifted flour and baking powder to the liquid mixture. Mix everything with a whisk and add kefir. Mix the kefir with the resulting mass and add the remaining flour, mix thoroughly with a whisk. Separate one third of the resulting dough into a separate bowl.

Mix cocoa with water until a homogeneous mass is formed. The resulting mass is added to the separated part of the dough of a smaller volume. Stir thoroughly - there should be no lumps or stains of unmixed dough.

We prepare a baking dish, greasing it well with butter or vegetable oil. It is recommended to use a special muffin pan with a pipe in the center. In this form, the dough is baked evenly, and the resulting baked goods look very attractive. However, if there is no such form, you can use any one of your choice. If you are using a silicone mold, you do not need to lubricate it with anything. Pour half of the dough without cocoa into the prepared mold. Put the dark dough on top with a spoon, which will partially "drown" in the light one. You should not carefully level the surface - laying out the dough with cocoa in a chaotic manner, thereby creating a pattern on the cut of the future cake. Then carefully pour the remaining light dough into the mold, under its own weight the mixture will spread by itself and form fancy color borders.

We put the form with the future cake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. We bake for 45-50 minutes. The cupcake will grow in size and will be covered with a golden crust. A characteristic crack will appear on the surface. You can check the readiness with a toothpick by sticking it into the middle of the cake: if it comes out dry, then it is ready. If there is sticky dough left, the cake needs to be baked further. To prevent the surface from burning, cover the mold with foil and continue baking.

We take the finished cake out of the oven and let it cool completely. In the cooled state, remove the cake from the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar through a strainer. Cut into portions and serve.