White Chocolate Truffle and Champagne Cupcakes

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Ingredients

  • 130g plain flour
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 40g softened salted butter
  • 1 egg
  • 100ml whole milk
  • 20ml Champagne
  • 10ml vanilla essence
  • 100g white chocolate

  • For the Icing:

  • 300g icing sugar
  • 80g salted butter
  • 20ml whole milk
  • 20ml Champagne
  • 10ml vanilla essence

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make White Chocolate Truffle and Champagne Cupcakes

Put the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl — flour, sugar, baking powder and butter (treat butter as 'dry' for our purposes). Mix until you have an even sandy consistency.

Measure out the milk and champagne in a jug, add the egg and vanilla and whisk well. Drizzle into the flour whilst mixing, until you have a smooth batter/mixture.

Melt the white chocolate gently in the microwave or over a double boiler. Then add half of the melted choc to the batter mixture. Spoon evenly into 12 cupcake cases and bake at 170 degrees for 20 minutes until bounce back to the touch.

Cool on a wire rack and in the meantime make the icing by mixing the icing sugar, butter, champagne, milk, vanilla and remaining melted white chocolate together for several minutes until light and fluffy.

It is hard to over mix icing, so just keep going until it is really pale and fluffy. Add more milk or icing sugar to change the consistency. You should aim for something that holds its shape without being too stiff.

Pipe the icing on top of the cakes using a reusable piping bag and large star nozzle and decorate as required.

Comments

Kezabout 1 week ago

Thanks so much am just about to try a batch ....if they're as yummy as they sound hopefully making loads in august for daughters wedding !

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Sanjana ModhaFood Network UK Teamabout 2 weeks ago
Hi Kez. Thanks for your comment. You can freeze un-iced, cooled cupcakes in a sealed freezer bag for a few weeks. Simply remove them from the bag, cover loosely and defrost at room temperature the night before you want to ice and eat them. Enjoy!