Burnt-Butter Brown-Sugar Cupcakes

Name: Burnt-Butter Brown-Sugar Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 150 g unsalted butter; 125 g self-raising flour; 60 g golden caster sugar; 65 g light muscovado sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2–3 tablespoons milk; 250–300 g golden icing sugar, sieved; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

It’s difficult to explain the wonderful resonant taste that burnt butter has, but think of it as a kind of mouth-filling nuttiness.

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

150 g unsalted butter
125 g self-raising flour
60

Dinner
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6 and then get on with burning your butter. Put it in a small saucepan on medium heat, stirring all the time until it turns a dark golden colour. Take the pan off the heat and strain the butter into a bowl or cup, as it will have made a sediment. In o