Espresso Cupcakes

Name: Espresso Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 2 large eggs; 125 g self-raising flour; 1 tablespoon cocoa powder; 1 tablespoon espresso coffee powder; 50 g dark chocolate, melted; 1–2 tablespoons milk; 300 g dark chocolate; 50 g unsalted butter; 125 g soft unsalted butter; 125 g dark muscovado sugar; 2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee powder

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

You don’t need to make the cappuccino cupcakes, to have with these, but they do look, and taste, wonderful together. They are on the edge of what my paternal grandfather, and my mother after him, used to condemn as landscape cookery, but I just couldn’t help myself.

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

125 g soft unsalted butter
125 g dark muscovado sugar
2

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6.

Pulse the butter and sugar in a food processor, then add the eggs, pulsing again. Tip in the flour, cocoa and coffee powder, and process until you have a smooth batter. Finally, add the chocolate, and thin the batter with the milk. Pour int