These cupcakes were a last minute thing. I had planned to make something else but did not realise that I was missing an ingredient.
Have to say though that I’m glad I went with these cupcakes instead as the marble effect is something I have never done so it gave me a chance to try something new.
I know that doing two different flavours in a cupcake can be a bit daunting because people think they need to make two separate mixtures but you don’t at all. One mixture is plenty and will be enough to make all these cupcakes.
I would just make sure you keep an eye on how much of each mixture adding to the cupcake cases to ensure that each cupcake has a similar amount of each mixture.
Vanilla and Chocolate Marble Cupcakes
Servings 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 175 g Unsalted Butter Room Temperature
- 175 g Caster Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 Eggs
- 175 g Self-Raising Flour
- 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 25 g Milk chocolate Melted
- 25 ml Milk
Buttercream
- 200 g Unsalted Butter Room Temperature
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 400 g Icing Sugar
- 35 g Milk Chocolate Melted
- 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to gas 4/180 degrees. Line muffin tin with 12 paper cases. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla, then beat in the eggs, one by one, until smooth. Beat in the rest of the flour.
- Put half the mixture in another bowl. Add the cocoa powder and melted milk chocolate to one bowl then add the milk to the other mixture.
- Fill each case with spoonfuls of both mixtures then swirl a skewer through the mixtures to create a marble effect. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes.
Buttercream
- Beat the butter in a bowl until pale and creamy, then add the vanilla extract. Add the icing sugar in 3 stages, beating between each addition until fully combined.
- Divide between two bowls. Mix in the melted chocolate in one bowl then add both to one large bowl and swirl briefly with a skewer. Put into a piping bag with an open star nozzle.
- Pipe the chocolate icing on top of the cupcakes. The cupcakes will last 3 days in a sealed container.
