Ren Behan - Author Wild Honey and Rye

Food Writer

Recipe: Caramel and Cocoa Cupcakes

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This is a recipe adapted from a lovely new baking book in my collection, Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking. Her cupcake boutique is always filled to the brim with pretty and intricately decorated cakes. It is definitely on my list of places to visit when London-bound. Since receiving the book for Christmas, I’ve had my eye on Peggy’s triple layer Creamy Caramel Cake, but in the end, I wondered if I’d be the only one left eating it. So, I decided to halve the cake mix to make 12 individual cupcakes instead. I added some My Secret Kitchen Vanilla Pudding Spices (cinnamon would work well, too) and used a toffee sauce, since that’s what I had, in place of dulce de leche. Peggy suggests making a sugar syrup to soak into the cakes once baked, but as these were small cupcakes with plenty of sweet frosting on top I didn’t think it was necessary.

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About Ren

Ren Behan is a British-born food writer of Polish descent. She is a mum to three young children (13, 10 and 5) and spends lots of time with them in the kitchen. Ren writes about seasonal, family-friendly food on her blog www.renbehan.com. She also contributes recipes and articles to online and print food publications, such as Food52.com, GreatBritishChefs.com, Huff Post Food and JamieOliver.com. She holds a Diploma in Food Journalism with Distinction and has completed a Food Styling course at Leiths School of Food and Wine.

Ren’s cookbook, Wild Honey and Rye: Modern Polish Recipes, draws upon her Polish heritage and regular travels to Poland.

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  9. Have heard a lot about the Peggy book although I don’t do fancy baking much these days. Bookmarked for the teens to bake – they like to take cupcakes into school. They become very popular and aren’t tempted to eat too many themselves.

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    • I don’t think I had baked anything since before Christmas! And sadly I felt much better for it. These was quite dainty. There are quite a lot of lovely recipes in the book and I just got a new one too, called Annie Bell’s Baking Bible which looks rather lovely!

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  11. wow these look amazing ren! I had an awful valentine’s day, stuck at hoem working on my projects.. wish I had a cupcake or two to cheer me up. oh well, tis all over! hope you had a wonderful day x

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    • Yep all done for another year. I was posting this recipe at 8.30pm or whenever, home too with a poorly husband. It was a very good job I had these cupcakes!

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  12. I’m a sucker for cupcakes….these look lovely Ren I may have to try these!
    Have to say while I’m here that I love love your photography too,very professional 🙂

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    • Thank you Camilla, yes really mine should be toffee and cocoa cupcakes but dulce de leche is the best thing to use which will make them caramel! There isn’t much difference. Looking forward to the round-up x

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