Chocolate Toffee Cupcakes

I've been off enjoying the summer months, hence it's been a while since I had time for baking. I decided that my next post needed to include chocolate and caramel so I modified a very reliable chocolate cake recipe to include toffee pieces and make them into cupcakes.

The toffee pieces melt within the cupcake so the crunch of the toffee is lost, however topping the cupcakes with more toffee soon fixes that problem. And what better way to fix any chocolate craving than to top the cupcakes with ganache oh and why not add a little Baileys!


Chocolate Toffee Cupcakes

1 cup flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla ess
1/2 cup strong coffee
1/2 cup toffee bits

Ganache
1 cup chocolate
4 Tbsp Baileys
2 Tbsp butter

Preheat oven to 180C and line a muffin tin. In a mixing bowl add flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Melt the butter. Mix in the sugar and beat in the eggs gradually. Add in the vanilla and coffee and beat until creamy and light. Fold the butter mixture into the dry ingredients. Add the toffee pieces and pour the mixture into the muffin tin. Bake for 25 mins. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before icing.

Ganache
Melt the chocolate, Baileys and butter until smooth, allow to cool to room temperature before icing the cupcakes. Top the iced cupcakes with toffee bits.