Name: Night-and-Day Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 2 large eggs; 1 tablespoon milk; 125 g very soft unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 125 g self-raising flour; juice of ½ a lime (or 1 tablespoon lemon juice); 100 g cream cheese; 200 g icing sugar, sieved; 50 g dark muscovado sugar; 2 tablespoons boiling water; 75 g golden caster sugar; 2 scant tablespoons cocoa powder; 12 chocolate-coated coffee beans or dark chocolate

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

This, like the cream-cheese brownies, uses my favourite combination of densely sweet and smoothly sharp. I love the way chocolate-coated coffee beans look like buttons or studs on top of the creamy whiteness of the icing, but use dark chocolate coarsely shaved through a grater if you prefer.