Description
Adapted from Making Cupcakes with Lola
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcake
- 180g Pitted Dates (chopped)
- 2 tbsp Golden Syrup
- 130ml Boiling Water
- 200g Self-Raising Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 100g Unsalted Butter
- 160g Muscovado Sugar
- 2 Large Free Range Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Rum Toffee Ganache
- 200g Caster Sugar
- 50g Unsalted Butter
- 150ml Double Cream
- 2 tsp Dark Rum
- 300g White Chocolate
- 200g Icing Sugar
- Cornish Fudge Cubes
Instructions
- Oven to 190C. Put the chopped dates, golden syrup and the boiling water into a bowl and leave to soak until the water has cooled to room temp or while you get on with the rest of the batter.
- Sift the flour and baking powder together into a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and beat in one at a time, then add the vanilla.
- Break the dates up with a fork, slowly add the sifted dry ingredients and the date mixture to the mixing bowl and beat on low speed until smooth. Divide the mixture between 12 muffin cases and bake for 15-20 minutes or until well risen. Cool on a wire rack.
- For the ganache, scatter the caster sugar over the bottom of a heavy based frying pan, set over medium heat. Do not stir (I must admit I’m a fiddle and can’t leave pans without stirring – honestly DON’T do it!!! It will go lumpy and lump to your whisk!!)
- When the sugar has melted and starts turning an amber colour, remove the heat and stir in the butter. Add 3 tbsp of the double cream and the rum and whisk until smooth. Let it cool to room temp (I still had a few small lumps of toffee in the sauce, but that was nice in the finished frosting to find tasty nuggets of toffee.)
- Put the remaining cream in a saucepan over medium heat and heat until it starts bubbling around the edges. Remove from the heat and stir in the white chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted. Leave to cool to room temp.
- When both the caramel and the white chocolate ganache has cooled, mix them together and then add the sifted icing, mix well and chill for 10 minutes.
- Spoon the frosting into a piping bag and pipe to decorate or spread on the top of the cakes. Lola’s recommends to serve these with ice cream wafers and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, however, I found the icing sweet enough, to not add to it. But scattered them with cubes of fudge.
- Prep Time: 60 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Cakes, Cupcakes
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: British