Malteaser Cupcakes

Mr P liked the Oreo Cookie Cupcakes so much that he started making suggestions for other chocolate based ideas. Malteasers were the order of the day. But rather than make my usual chocolate cupcake recipe and just top it off with butter cream icing and a Malteaser or two, (which to be honest would feel like a bit of a cop out) I wanted to make the actual cake part of the cupcake taste malty too.

So I devised a new recipe for a cupcake and crossed my fingers that it would work! I added some crushed Malteasers & some Horlicks powder into the cake mix.

Ingredients
150g Butter/Stork
150g Dark Brown Soft Sugar
150g Self raising flour
3 eggs
75g blitzed Malteasers
3tbsp milk
50g Horlicks powder

I used a whole 230g Share bag of Malteasers in this recipe. Save about 15 for topping the cakes then freeze the rest for a while. I found this really helps when it comes to crushing them.
take out 75g of Malteasers from the freezer and crush. You can do this either in a food processor

Blitzed Malteasers in the processor

or just pop them in a plastic bag, place between a tea-towel and bash with a rolling pin. Such a great stress reliever!

Remove from the processor, if that's the method used and put to one side.

Cream the butter & sugar.

Add the eggs one at a time with a tbsp of flour.

Add the rest of the flour, mix well.

Add the milk, mix.

Add the Horlicks powder and blitzed Malteasers.

You should get a lovely almost toffee coloured cake batter like this.....

Pour into muffin size cases. I got about 15 out of the mixture and put an ice cream scoop of mixture into each one

Bake in a preheated oven at 180c/160c fan/Gas 4 for 20 minutes.

Test with a skewer, if it comes out clean they're done. (Don't forget they have chocolate in, don't mistake melted chocolate for undercooked cake!)

Golden cakes fresh from the oven

Put the cakes on a wire rack to cool.

Take the remaining Malteasers from the freezer and blitz using your preferred method. Make up Butter cream  with 250g unsalted butter, 500g icing sugar a splash of milk and the Malteasers. Fill a large piping bag & use a whippy nozzle. Pipe the tops of the cakes like this

Don't worry if you don't get perfect swirls, the bits in the icing make it tricky sometimes

Top with Malteasers

Malteaser Tower

You end up with a lovely Cupcake that gives you a malty aftertaste and a rich butter cream topping. Yum!

Enjoy!