Sunday, 21 September 2014

Vanilla Cupcake with Flapjack Center and Peanut Butter Frosting.

All the greatest things in ONE CUPCAKE!

So, this cupcake has a bit of a back story... For the whole day I had been racking my brain for things to make for today. I already knew I wanted to make cupcakes but the flavour is everything, right? My Saturday was slowly running out and I had no clue what I wanted to do. Then it hit me... a center. I feel that normal cupcakes are boring if there isn't something to surprise you and what more to surprise you then a gooey flapjack center?! 

LETS GET THAT CUPCAKE A ROLLIN'!

Ingredients:

For the Cupcakes:

140g Unsalted, Softened Butter

140g Caster Sugar

2 Eggs

140g Plain Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1-2 tsp Milk (Just Incase)

3 Small Pieces of Squishy Flapjack

For the PB Frosting:

37g Unsalted, Softened Butter

90g Icing Sugar (Confectioners or Powdered Sugar)

1tbsp Smooth Peanut Butter

Method:



Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line 2x 6 hole cupcake tins.

Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric stand mixer or a whisk until fluffy. Beat in the eggs, followed by the flour and baking powder. If you need to, add enough milk to the mixture so that it falls off your spoon easily.

Divide the batter between the cases and bake for 20 mins or until a skewer or knife comes out clean. Take the cakes out of the pan and put them out onto a wire rack and cool for around 10-20 minutes.

Once your cupcakes are cooling, it's time to start making the frosting!


Place the butter in a large bowl and blend with a whisk/electric stand mixer until it is smooth. Then, add the peanut butter, once again, blend it until smooth. Finally add the icing sugar and mix until very soft peaks form.

After 10-20 minutes of cooling, the decorating can begin!


Use a cupcake corer (any size) and take out the middle of the cake (... DO NOT TAKE OUT THE WHOLE MIDDLE, leave a little at the bottom to keep it all together)

Squish the flapjack pieces in your hand and roll them into a cylinder that fits the hole, make sure the flapjack is level with the top of your cupcake.

Put all of the PB icing into a piping bag (or just a ziplock bag) and pipe the cupcakes the way you feel is best!

AND YOU ARE DONE, CONGRATULATIONS! If you made this recipe, I would love to see it or, if you have any questions, comment down below :D See you next week for another delicious cake recipe!

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