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Spiced hot chocolate cupcakes with cinnamon buttercream recipe

5 ratings

Warming and comforting, these little cakes, spiced with cinnamon, take all that we love from a hot chocolate and deliver it in cupcake form! See method

Makes 12 cupcakes
30 mins to prepare and 30 mins to cook
332 calories / serving

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

80g butter, melted
100ml milk
180g caster sugar
3 medium free range eggs
½ tsp ground cinnamon
130g flour
1 tsp baking powder
large pinch of salt
½ tsp cocoa powder

For the cinnamon buttercream

125g icing sugar
100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
125g cream cheese, fridge temperature
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp cocoa powder

To decorate

Ground cinnamon
mini marshmallows

Each serving contains

Energy
1390kj
332kcal 17%
Fat
19g 27%
Saturates
11g 56%
Sugars
29g 32%
Salt
0.3g 5%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 38.1g Protein 4.2g Fibre 0.7g

Method

Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C. Line a muffin tin with 12 cases.
In a small saucepan, heat the butter with the milk until it has half melted. Remove from the heat and allow for the remaining half to melt as the mixture cools down.
Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and sugar until light, fluffy and pale in colour. In a separate bowl, sieve the cinnamon with the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa. Fold this mixture into the eggs simultaneously with the warm milk mixture.
Divide between the cupcake cases, taking care not to fill quite to the top, about two-thirds of the way up the case. Bake for 20-22 mins until cooked through and bouncy to touch.
Remove from the muffin tin and allow to cool completely before icing.
While the cakes are cooking, prepare the icing. In a mixer, whisk together the butter and icing sugar until blended. Add the cream cheese, cinnamon and cocoa powder and mix again.
When the cakes are completely cooled, spoon or pipe the icing over the cupcakes. Sprinkle over the marshmallows, a light dusting of cinnamon, and serve.

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Tip: The cupcakes can be made ahead and frozen. Allow to defrost completely before icing and serving.