Neapolitan Cupcakes

Now I always remember one ice cream from my childhood mainly and that was neapolitan ice cream. This ice cream was vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavour.

I always remember eating this ice cream as a kid, I would always add strawberry sauce to my ice cream and it was always my favourite thing to have.

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I wanted to take this ice cream and turn it in to a cupcake because why not. You have to experiment to see what you like.

Now I spent ages thinking about how I was going to do these cupcakes as I wanted them to be true to the ice cream and have a good flavour in each element of the cupcake.

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I decided that the sponge would be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate as I know that this combination works well. Now even though the traditional flavour is strawberry, I decided to do raspberry buttercream because I wanted a contrasting flavour but one that would work well with the cupcakes.

The other reason for raspberry buttercream was because I had an open jar of raspberry jam which I wanted to get used up.

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Neapolitan Cupcakes

Three flavours in one cupcake means you get the best of all worlds.
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword Baking, Cupcakes
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Chocolate Layer

  • 125 g Unsalted Butter
  • 125 g Caster Sugar
  • 125 g Self-Raising Flour
  • 2 Eggs
  • 50 g Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder

Vanilla Layer

  • 125 g Unsalted Butter
  • 125 g Caster Sugar
  • 125 g Self-Raising Flour
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder

Strawberry Buttercream

  • 250 g Unsalted Butter
  • 500 g Icing Sugar
  • 100 g Raspberry Jam

Instructions

Chocolate Layer

  • Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees and fill a 12 hole muffin tin with paper cake cases.
  • Mix your butter and sugar together until fully incorporated. Then add each egg until both are incorporated.
  • Sieve the flour into the mixture and mix until fully incorporated then add the cocoa powder and mix until incorporated.
  • Spoon the mixture into the cases until they are about 1/4 full.

Vanilla Layer

  • Mix your butter and sugar together until incorporated then add your eggs one at a time until they are both incorporated
  • Sieve the flour into the wet ingredients then mix until incorporated. Add your vanilla extract and mix in.
  • Spoon the mixture on top of the chocolate layer until the layers about the same thickness.
  • Put in the oven for 20 minutes until golden on top.

Strawberry Buttercream

  • Beat your butter until it is pale in colour.* Add your icing sugar a little bit at a time until fully incorporated.
  • Add your jam a little bit at a time to ensure it gets fully incorporated. Then pipe** the buttercream onto your cupcakes.

Notes

*this is about 5 minutes on a medium speed
** I used a round nozzle on my piping bag

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