Malteser Cupcakes

This is a recipe you most definitely need to try if you are a chocolate lover (or a malteser lover!), and they are so easy to make.

I made these for one of my colleagues for his birthday and when I was deciding what to bake, the only thing I knew he liked was maltesers, so I based the whole recipe on that! Needless to say they were an absolute hit and made his day, so I will definitely be making them again.

Ingredients:

For the cake-

• 4oz Unsalted Butter
• 4oz Caster Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 3/4oz self-raising flour
• 1/4oz cocoa powder

For the chocolate buttercream-

• 4 oz unsalted butter
• 6 oz icing sugar
• 2 oz cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp milk

*PLUS*

• 1 large packet of maltesers!

Makes 9 large cupcakes (they were large!!)

Prep time: 30 mins

Cooking Time: 15-20 mins

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180oC and line a muffin tray with cupcake cases.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.
3. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each egg.
4. Sift in the flour and the cocoa powder and fold in until well mixed.
5. Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases and bake for approximately 15-20 minutes.
6. Whilst these are baking, make the buttercream. Put the butter and 3 oz of the icing sugar in a bowl and cream together.
7. Add the remaining buttercream ingredients and mix until well combined into a creamy consistency. Then put this to one side.
8. Use a rolling pin (or anything you like) to crush your maltesers- you may want to take some out before you do this to have some whole maltesers to use as decoration).
9. When the cupcakes have been taken out of the oven and cooled slightly, use a knife to cut out a small cone shape from the middle of each cupcake.
10. Fill the holes with a spoonful of buttercream and then add a layer of the crushed maltesers.
11. Place the cut-out section of the cake back on top of the crushed maltesers (adding a dollop of buttercream acts as a sort of glue to help keep them in place)
12. For the finishing touch, add another blob of buttercream on the top and finish with a whole malteser!