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White Chocolate Truffle and Champagne Cupcakes

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  • Treat yourself to these dainty cupcakes spiked with your favourite fizz.
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Ingredients

  • 130g plain flour
  • 140g caster sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 40g softened salted Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter
  • 1 egg
  • 100ml whole milk
  • 20ml Champagne
  • 10ml vanilla extract
  • 100g white chocolate

  • For the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please Icing :

  • 300g Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar
  • 80g salted Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter
  • 20ml whole milk
  • 20ml Champagne
  • 10ml vanilla extract

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 Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter (treat Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more 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 Technique: Whisk Using light, rapid sweeping strokes to thicken or thoroughly combine ingredients. You can also use a whisk attachment attached to a food processor. I know this Teach me, please 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 Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing by mixing the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar, Technique: Using Butter You could replace butter with Stork margarine. It's easy to use and comes in blocks, tubs and liquid for any kind of dish from sweet baking to savoury meals. I know this Tell me more butter , champagne, milk, vanilla and remaining melted white chocolate together for several minutes until light and fluffy.

It is hard to over mix Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing , so just keep going until it is really pale and fluffy. Add more milk or Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar to change the consistency. You should aim for something that holds its shape without being too stiff.

Technique: Piping Adding icing to a cake or cupcake using a piping bag for more precise decorations and designs. I know this Teach me, please Pipe the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing on top of the cakes using a reusable Technique: Piping Adding icing to a cake or cupcake using a piping bag for more precise decorations and designs. I know this Teach me, please piping bag and large star nozzle and decorate as required.