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Snickers Cupcakes

Snickers Cupcakes - Chocolate Cupcakes filled with caramel sauce and topped with smooth peanut buttercream, more caramel, crunchy peanuts and a little slice of Snickers.
Active Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 12 cupcakes

INGREDIENTS

For the chocolate cupcakes

  • 150 g self-raising flour
  • 30 g cocoa powder
  • 175 g caster sugar
  • 175 g soft margarine - or softened butter
  • 3 large eggs
  • tsp vanilla extract
  • 75 g milk chocolate - see note 1
  • ½ tbsp milk
  • 12 cupcake cases

For the caramel sauce (you can use 100ml of ready-made caramel sauce if you prefer)

  • 100 g granulated sugar
  • 30 g butter
  • 60 ml single cream - or 30ml double cream and 30ml full fat milk
  • For the peanut buttercream
  • 250 g unsalted butter - soft at room temperature
  • 250 g icing sugar
  • 250 g smooth peanut butter

To decorate

  • 2 tbsp peanuts
  • 2 Snickers bars - pop these into the fridge for an hour or two before you want to use them.

INSTRUCTIONS

Make the chocolate cupcakes

  • Pre-heat your oven to 160ºC/140ºC fan.
  • Put your cupcake cases into a muffin tin.
  • Grate the milk chocolate (75g).
  • Put all of the ingredients into a large bowl (150g self-raising flour, 30g cocoa powder, 175g caster sugar, 3 large eggs, 175g soft margarine, ⅛ tsp vanilla extract, ½ tbsp milk and the grated chocolate) mix on a low speed until fully combined.
  • Divide the mixture evenly between the 12 cupcake cases (I use a cupcake scoop to help split it evenly).
  • Put the tin into the oven and cook the cupcakes for 20-25 minutes. After 20 minutes put a skewer in the middle and check if it comes out clean. If it does they’re done, if not pop them back in for a couple more minutes and check again.
  • Once cooked, remove the cupcakes from the oven and leave them to cool in the tins for a few minutes.
  • Remove the cupcakes from their tin and pop them onto a wire rack to cool completely.

While the cupcakes and cooking make the caramel sauce

  • Measure out all of your ingredients into separate bowls (100g granulated sugar, 30g butter, 60ml single cream). Cut the butter into small cubes (this’ll help you to incorporate it into the sauce quickly).
  • Put the sugar into a large saucepan spread evenly across the bottom and place onto a medium heat.
  • Once the sugar has clearly started to melt, gently move the sugar about the pan with the spatula until it has all melted.
  • Once the sugar has melted continue to stir gently with the spatula until it has turned a light brown colour.
  • As soon as the caramel is light brown, carefully add the butter and whisk rapidly until the butter has melted and is combined.
  • Turn off the heat and add the cream, again whisking rapidly until combined.
  • If there are any small sugar crystals, pass the sauce through a metal sieve to remove them.
  • Put into a bowl or jug and refrigerate to cool.

Make the peanut buttercream (see note 2)

  • Put the butter (250g) and peanut butter (250g) into a large bowl and beat (by hand or using an electric mixer on a slow speed) until fully combined and soft.
  • Add the icing sugar (250g) a tablespoon at a time and beat on a low speed until fully combined.
  • Your buttercream is now ready to serve. If you find it’s become a little soft then simply pop it into the fridge until it has firmed up a little.

Put the cupcakes together

  • Once the cupcakes have cooled, scoop out the centre using a teaspoon or the large end of a large metal piping nozzle - To use the nozzle, simply push down then lift up and the centre of the cupcake should just lift out.
  • Add a spoonful of the caramel sauce to the centre of each cupcake.
  • Pipe in the peanut buttercream (or simply spread it on if you don't like piping).
  • Drizzle over a little more caramel sauce - You can either do this by dipping a fork in the sauce and drizzling it over, or putting it into a piping bag with a small hole at the bottom.
  • Roughly chop the peanuts and sprinkle them onto the cupcakes.
  • Using a sharp knife, slice each chilled Snickers bar into 6 pieces and put a slice on top of each cake.
  • Enjoy.

NOTES

Note 1 - choose milk chocolate from the baking aisle in the supermarket as it will cope well with the heat in the oven without going grainy
Note 2 – If you’re using natural peanut butter you’ll find quite a lot of oil at the top. You want to ensure that you drain as much of the oil away from the peanut butter as possible or you’ll find that your buttercream will become too soft.
Nutrition info: If you need to look you probably shouldn't be eating these :-)

Any nutritional information provided is the estimated nutritional information per serving. Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you would like to learn more about how this is calculated.


Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Buttercream, Chocolate Cupcakes, Frosting, Sponge Cake
Author: Charlotte Oates