Pistachio chocolate cupcakes

Name: Pistachio chocolate cupcakes
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 100 g plain flour; 20 g cocoa powder; 1½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp fine salt; 80 g unsalted butter, softened; 110 g Billington’s Golden Caster Sugar; 2 British Blacktail Medium Free Range Eggs; ½ tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract; 1 tbsp whole milk; 12 Lindt Lindor Pistachio (from a 200g box)

A riff on the still-going-strong Dubai chocolate trend, these fashionable little cakes have a nutty surprise in the centre.

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Vegetarian

Serves12
CourseCake
Prepare25 mins
Cook25 mins
Total time50 mins
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100g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp fine salt
80g unsalted butter, softened
110g Billington’s Golden Caster Sugar
2 British Blacktail Medium Free Range Eggs
½ tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
1 tbsp whole milk
12 Lindt Lindor Pistachio (from a 200g box)

Topping

90g Belgian dark chocolate (54% cocoa solids), chopped
100g mascarpone
1 tbsp icing sugar
25g pistachio kernels, chopped

Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4 and line a 12-hole cupcake tin with cases. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in a bowl and set aside.
Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric hand mixer for 2-3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then beat in the vanilla extract. Sift in the flour mixture and beat until just combined. Finally, beat in the milk.
Divide the mixture between the cases, then gently press a Lindt ball into each cupcake until just the very top is visible. Bake for 20 minutes, then set aside to cool completely.
For the topping, melt the chocolate in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan of simmering water (don’t allow the base of the bowl to touch the water), then set aside to cool for a minute. In a large bowl, with a wooden spoon, beat the mascarpone with the icing sugar and a pinch of salt, then mix in the chocolate. Spread over the cupcakes (loosen with a drop of just-boiled water if it stiffens up), top with the chopped pistachios, then serve.