Snickers Cupcakes

Last night we went to Pizza Hut with Corey's family to celebrate his birthday. I made him Snickers Cupcakes as he requested using this recipe from The Red Deer. The only thing I did different was to make standard buttercream instead of swiss meringue to save on time. I also was so short on time I forgot to take any decent photos so here is one of Corey and his cupcakes at Pizza Hut.

Devil's Food Cake (via The Red Deer)

180g unsalted butter, softened
385g caster sugar
3 eggs
225g self-raising flour
75g plain flour
1/2 tsp bi-carb soda
70g cocoa powder
3 tsps instant coffee granules
125ml water
125ml milk

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Line 2 12-hole muffin trays with cupcake cases.
2. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. Fold in sifted flours, soda and cocoa with combined coffee, water and milk, in two batches.
4. Spoon mixture into cupcake cases and bake for 30 minutes (or until a toothpick comes out clean). Set aside to cool.

Snickers Cupcake Filling (via The Red Deer)

1 cup peanuts
1 tin of Top'n'Fill Caramel

1. Mix together the peanuts and caramel.
   
2. Once the cupcakes have cooled cut a well out of each cupcake, fill with the Snickers filling and then replace the piece of cupcake that was cut out.

For the buttercream I just made a standard buttercream and then substituted the milk for caramel syrup. It turned out delicious!

Now one of my 101 in 1001 is to make a new cupcake recipe every month for a year. This is going to be number 1. So from now until October 2011 I will be making a new cupcake recipe every month. I was going to make it every week but I just don't have the time every week to make cupcakes. Stay tuned for Decembers cupcakes which will no doubt be Christmas themed.