Chocolate Toffee Cupcakes

As the name may suggest, these are very sweet and sickly. My favourite kind of cake!
They use a plain cake (though you could just as easily use chocolate flavour, or banana if you are feeling really adventurous) with a toffee sauce and them covered in melted chocolate. Mmmmmmm!!


Ingredients - makes 18 nicely

100g (4oz) butter or margarine

125g (5oz) sugar

150g (6oz) self raising flour

2 eggs

2 tbsp milk

½ tsp vanilla essence

Icing

1/2 can (200g) of sweetened condensed milk

50g (2oz) caster sugar

65g (2.5oz) butter

2 tbsp golden syrup

100g (4oz) plain chocolate

100g (4oz) milk chocolate

1. Preheat the oven to 190*C. Line 2 bun trays with paper cases. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl, and add in the eggs. Beat until mixed.
2. Fold in the flour, milk and then vanilla essence. Divide into cases. Bake for 15 mins or until golden brown on top (and a skewer inserted comes out clean).
3. Cool on a wire rack. While cooking, start on the icing.
4. Put the condensed milk, sugar, butter and golden syrup in a medium heavy based pan and heat gently stirring until all the sugar is dissolved. Cook over a gentle heat for 5 mins or until a pale fudge colour.
5. Leave to cool until thick and spreadable. Then spread onto the tops of each cake.
6. Melt the chocolates (separately) in double boilers or in the microwave. Spoon the melted chocolate onto the tops of the cakes and make pretty patterns - i.e. swirl the two with a cocktail stick, or pipe one onto the other etc.
7. If you are like, decorate the tops with slivers (or curls if you can make them) of chocolate.

For chocolate cakes, add a bit of cocoa to the cake mix for chocolate (15 g (0.5 oz)), or for banana, remove 15 g (0.5 oz) of sugar and butter/margarine and replace with a mashed banana. Cook for roughly the same amount of time. Enjoy!


MMFC