GMA Recipe: Night and Day Cupcake Recipe

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Night and Day Cupcakes
From British chef and Domestic Goddess, Nigella Lawson
2001

From British sensation Nigella Lawson, these tasty treats are named for the delightful combination of cream cheese and chocolate. She shares them with Good Morning America.

Ingredients

2 scant tablespoons cocoa powder

2 tablespoons boiling water

1/4 cup sugar

scant 1/4 cup dark brown sugar

3/4 cup self-rising cake flour

2 large eggs

1/2 cup very soft unsalted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon milk

12-cup muffin pan with paper baking cups

Frosting (below)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400. Mix the cocoa to a paste with the boiling water and set aside while you make the cupcake mixture.

2. This couldn't be easier: Just put the sugars, flour, eggs, and butter and vanilla in the processor and blitz to combine smoothly.

3. Scrape the mixture from the sides and then pulse while you add the cocoa paste and milk down the funnel. You should have a batter with a soft dropping consistency: If not, add a little more milk.

4. Dollop into the paper baking cups in the pan and bake for 20 minutes, until an inserted cake tester comes out clean.

5. Leave in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove, in the paper baking cups, to a wire rack.

Frosting

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted

4 ounces cream cheese

juice of 1/2 lime or tablespoon lemon juice

12 chocolate-coated coffee beans or bittersweet chocolate

Directions

1. When the cupcakes are cool, make the frosting by beating together the sifted confectioners' sugar and cream cheese till soft.

2. Add lime or lemon juice to taste and then spread roughly over the waiting cupcakes. Stud each one with a chocolate-coated coffee bean or shave over some bittersweet chocolate.

Makes 12.

Recipe courtesy of Nigella Lawson from How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, copyright 2002.

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