Victoria Threader's New Year cupcakes recipe

goodtoknow user Victoria Threader has been busy in the kitchen again making these amazing New Year cupcakes - filled with delicious champagne truffles. The perfect addition to any New Year celebration – these cupcakes look really impressive on the table, and they taste great.

Ingredients

• 125g of self raising flour
• 25g of cornflour
• 150g of butter
• 150g of caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of good quality vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• 12 Champagne truffles of your choice, I used dark chocolate truffles

For the topping:

• 150g of black shop bought fondant icing

Vanilla buttercream:

• 60g of unsalted butter at room temperature
• 375g of icing sugar sifted
• 120 ml of milk
• ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 12 black or gold muffin cases

Method

1. To make this cupcake recipe, preheat the oven to 180/160oC for a fan oven. Line the tray with your cupcake cases.
2. Cream the butter , sugar , vanilla extract and milk until light and fluffy. Add one egg with a third of the flour. Beat until just mixed and repeat until all the eggs and flour are incorporated.
3. Place two thirds of the mixture into the cases and rest 1 truffle in the centre of each case.
4. Top up the cases with the rest of the mixture Bake for 18-20 minute.
5. Decorate by cutting 6 circles of the black icing the same size as the cake and placing on top of 6 of the cakes, then stick the topper to the black icing and smooth down. Decorate the other 6 with the vanilla buttercream.