Ingredients
GINGER AND TREACLE SPONGE
Unsalted butter 170g
Dark muscovado sugar 170g
Black treacle 170g
Stem ginger in syrup 3 pieces, roughly chopped
Large eggs 2 beaten
Plain flour 170g
Bicarbonate soda 1 tsp
Ground ginger 1 tbsp
Ground cinnamon 1 tsp
Natural yoghurt 200ml
PECAN PRALINE
Roughly chopped pecans 50g
Caster sugar 200g
RUM BUTTERCREAM
Full fat cream cheese 200g
Icing sugar 650-700g
White rum 3-4 tbsp
Method
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GINGER AND TREACLE SPONGE
- Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan
- Melt butter, sugar and treacle together, then add eggs and ginger
- Sieve flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices into a large bowl, before adding butter and treacle mix to combine
- Add yoghurt and mix until texture is runny
- Use ice-cream scoop to half-fill cupcake cases. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the tops have a shiny sheen. Cool -
PECAN PRALINE
- Scatter pecans over a lightly-greased baking tray
- Heat caster sugar until it turns rich gold colour, then pour over pecans and allow to cool
- Break the praline into shards, keeping enough for at least 2 shards per cupcake. Blitz the rest -
RUM BUTTERCREAM
- Blitz 300g icing sugar with cream cheese, butter and rum. Once combined add another 350g icing sugar and mix until soft and fluffy
- Add in more icing sugar if needed -
TO ASSEMBLE
- Add a swirl of buttercream to each cupcake, then a sprinkle of the blitzed praline
and top off with a couple of praline shards
