Tag: Baking

You Mean The World To Me

Happy Sunday everyone. If you don’t feel like braving the chilly outdoors, then why not indulge in a little home-sweet-home baking?

Today’s oh-so-tasty recipe is brought to you by Lucy, Editor of the delicious blog Supergolden Bakes. Lucy will be showing you how to create the crème de la crème of cupcakes – seriously, they are divine. But beware, once you try these little beauties, there will be no going back, they are literally all you’ll be able to think about! Enjoy…

Supergolden Bakes:

This cupcake was inspired by a cake my mum used to make when I was little. It has a moist, fluffy sponge and an incredibly addictive Swiss meringue buttercream frosting laced through with crunchy hazelnut praline. Every single person who has eaten one of these babies has emitted something between a sigh and a moan upon biting into one. Yes, they are THAT good.

Hazelnut Praline Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 200g hazelnuts
• 200g caster sugar
• squeeze of lemon

For the cupcakes

• 300g plain flour
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 150g light muscovado sugar
• 100g hazelnut praline, processed to a fine powder
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 200g unsalted butter, room temperature and cut into small pieces
• 4 medium eggs
• 200ml buttermilk
• 2 tsp vanilla paste (I used Pinner Vanilla)
• 2 tsp Camp coffee extract

Praline Swiss meringue buttercream

• 5 large egg whites
• 200g golden caster sugar
• 200g butter, room temperature cut into small pieces
• 1/2 tbsp vanilla paste
• 1/2 tbsp Camp coffee extract or very strong espresso coffee, cooled
• 5-10 tbsp of powdered hazelnut praline (to taste)

You Mean The World To Me

You Mean The World To Me