Recipe: Cappuccino Cupcakes With White Chocolate Frosting (food processor)

CAPPUCCINO CUPCAKES

"The only thing chocolatey about these is the white chocolate in the icing: underneath is just golden coffee sponge; I think of this combination as blonde mocha."

FOR THE CUPCAKES:
3/4 cup self-rising cake flour
1/2 cup soft unsalted butter
7 tablespoons sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 heaped tablespoon instant espresso powder
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
FOR THE ICING:
5 1/2 ounces white chocolate
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sour cream
1 2/3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
Scant teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder (for dusting tops)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper baking cups

Put all the cupcake ingredients except for the milk into the food processor and blitz to combine. Pulse again, adding milk down the funnel to form a batter with a soft, dropping consistency.

Spoon into the baking cups in their pan.

Bake for about 20 minutes. When ready, remove from the oven and leave in the pan to cool for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

When they're completely cold, get on with the icing. Melt the chocolate and 1/4 cup butter in the microwave or in a double boiler, and after it's cooled a little, stir in the sour cream. Gradually beat in the sifted confectioners' sugar. And if the consistency isn't right for icing, add either hot water to thin or more sifted sugar to thicken.

Spread roughly and generously over the top of each cupcake, and then dust sparingly with cocoa, by pressing a little through a tea strainer, so that they look like little cups of dusted cappuccino.

Makes 12 cupcakes
Used by permission to Recipelink.com from Random House
Source: How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson