Recipe: Caramel and Cocoa Cupcakes
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.
Caramel and Cocoa Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 100 gram unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 100 g vanilla sugar or golden caster sugar
- 2  medium eggs, lightly beaten
- 100 g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp  vanilla pudding spices or cinnamon
For the frosting
- 100 gram unsatled butter
- 150 gram icing sugar
- 60 gram toffee or caramel sauce
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder to dust
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius/gas mark 5. Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with paper cases.
- Beat the butter and vanilla sugar together for at least five minutes until pale and creamy.
- Slowly add the beaten eggs and gently whisk together. Sift in the flour and pudding spices or cinnamon and gently mix together with a metal spoon until all the flour is folded in.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the 12 cupcake cases, or use an ice-cream scoop. The cases should be just over half full.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean. Take the cakes out of the oven and leave them to cool.
- To make the buttercream frosting, beat the butter and icing sugar together until pale and fluffy. Add the toffee sauce and mix well. Using a small palette knife or a flat knife, spread a little frosting onto each cake. Twist the cake round as you spread to create a swirl effect. Dust the cakes lightly with cocoa power and eat!
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that’s gorgeous ren! too much sinful things in one cupcake but argh too difficult to resist 😀
One little cake won’t hurt…
Caramel and cocoa… what’s not to like, seriously?! I haven’t baked cupcakes in an age but feel the urge welling up…
Me too, gotta love a cup cake!
As I have just said on another blog there is nothing like expressing your love in a home made gift.
Lovely cupcakes! Thank you so much for sending to Credit Crunch Munch!
Thank you Helen, hope you are well! xx
These look wonderful Ren, very tempting!
Thank you so much Andrea, hope you are well x
These cupcakes look delicious! Lovely blog 🙂
Thank you Nicola, have a lovely weekend x
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.
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!
They look wonderful Ren and I love the dusting of cocoa on top 🙂
Thanks Jac, simples!
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
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!
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 🙂
Thank you so much Paula, such a lovely comment. I love them too!
These sound absolutely yummy, chocolate and toffee were made for each other:-) Thank you for entering this month’s Credit Crunch Munch!
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