Wedding Cupckes ~ The Final Installment

As well as those Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cupcakes, the bride also requested White Chocolate and Raspberry cupcakes, which were made with the recipe as normal, but this time I made two icings, one plain and the other flavoured with a couple of tablespoons of raspberry sauce that I made by reducing raspberries with some sugar to taste.  I then used the sauce in place of the milk in the normal buttercream icing recipe.  To a piping bag fitted with a large nozzle I added the plain icing to one side only, then filled the other side with the raspberry icing and piped the icing on top of the cupcakes.  These were then sprinkled with some little white chocolate hearts.

The final choice of cupcake were the Dulce de Leche ones and this is how I made them;

Dulce de Leche Cupcakes
110g unsalted butter, at room temp
110g caster sugar
2 large eggs
110g SR flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tsp Dulce de Leche
1 tin condensed milk, caramelised (I bought mine already made!)

Preheat the oven to 180C.  Fill a 12 hole non stick muffin tin with paper muffin cases.

Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.  Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition.  Sift the flour and baking powder together and add this, a third at a time, to the butter, follow this with the dulce de leche.

Place in the centre of the oven and bake for about 20 mins until the cakes are springy to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.  Place on a wire rack and leave to cool.  Once cool, scoop a hole in the centre with a melon baller or a teaspoon and fill the gap with a spoonful of the caramelised condensed milk.

Makes 12
Adapted from Eat Me

Dulce de Leche Icing

125g butter, softened

240g icing sugar

3-4 tbsp Dulce de Leche

 

Beat the butter in a small bowl with an electric mixer until as white as possible. Gradually beat in half the icing sugar (good idea to sift it in), milk, then the remaining icing sugar.

 

Makes enough to generously ice one batch of cupcakes

Adapted from The Australian Women's Weekly Kid's Party Cakes

 

 

Once these little babies were all iced and packaged I sprinkled over some caramel flavoured chocolate curls.