Hot Chocolate Cupcakes

Hot chocolate inspired cupcakes with a salted caramel filling and topped with buttercream, sprinkles and marshmallows!

Posted by Cat Morley

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There's no better combination that hot chocolate and marshmallows and these gourmet flavours from the London Marshmallow Company added an extra luxurious treat to these cupcakes.

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You Will Need (16 things)

  • For the cupcakes

  • 30 g Cocoa
  • 2 tbsp Hot Water
  • 100 g Butter
  • 75 g Sugar
  • 60 g Self-Raising Flour
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • 2 Eggs
  • 200 ml Salted Caramel Sauce

  • For the buttercream

  • 150 g Icing Sugar
  • 75 g Butter

  • To top

  • Sprinkles
  • Gourmet Marshmallows from the London Marshmallow Company
  • Straws

Steps (13 steps, 50 minutes)

  1. 1

    Stir the hot water into the cocoa powder until it begins to melt.

  2. 2

    Whisk in the butter, sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs and mix into a thick batter.

  3. 3

    Divide the batter between six mugs.

  4. 4

    Bake at 200°C for 15 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.

  5. 5

    Use a spoon to scoop out a hole in the middle of the cupcakes, making sure not to let the top crumble too much.

  6. 6

    Heat the salted caramel in a microwave until runny.

  7. 7

    Fill the well in each cupcake with some salted caramel.

  8. 8

    Place the spooned out cupcake crumbs on top.

  9. 9

    Chop your marshmallows into small cubs.

  10. 10

    Make the buttercream by whisking together the icing sugar and butter.

  11. 11

    Scoop the buttercream into a piping bag.

  12. 12

    Pipe buttercream onto the top of each cupcake.

  13. 13

    Top with sprinkles and marshmallows before serving with a straw, dipped into the salted caramel centre.