Devil Chocolate Cakes with Salted Caramel

Hi all, an update after so long.

Time seems to fly, I started working last summer & was thinking I would get into baking soon.

Obviously this didn't happen as you can see there hadn't any update until now.

Hopefully, I will bake more often from now.

To get myself back to baking, I started with my all time favourite, salted caramel cupcakes.

After making caramel & frosting, I realised I didn't have a muffin tray but loose-base mini cake pan I've bought from Lakeland for a long time.

The chocolate batter is not the best for this mini cakes as it's not firm enough, but divinely rich & moist.

Very pleased with it after all.

Salted Caramel Sauce

100 g granulated sugar

40 g honey

150 ml double cream

2-3 pinches of sea salt

Caramelise sugar with honey over medium heat.

Turn off heating & carefully pour in the double cream, stir until smooth.

Sprinkles salt & stir until dissolve.

Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

100 g salted caramel sauce

200 g cream cheese, at room temperature

100 g unsalted butter, at room temperature

Whisk all ingredients until combine.

Refrigerate the frosting to slightly firm for piping or use straight away for spreading.

Rich Chocolate Cakes (makes about 1 dozen):

adapted from Willie's Chocolate Bible

150 g dark chocolate

2 large eggs

250 g unsalted butter

200 g dark muscovado sugar

160 g self-raising flour

150 ml hot water

Line the cupcake cases on muffin tin.

Melt dark chocolate over hot water making sure the bowl doesn’t touch the water.

In a large bowl, whisk butter with sugar until light & fluffy.

Beat in the egg until mix, fold in the slightly cooled chocolate.

Fold in half the flour & hot water until mix.

Fold in the remaining flour & enough hot water to make a sloppy but not runny mixture.

Divide the batter & bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 15-20 min.

Remove from the oven & cool in the tin.

Still had some frosting left & I simply piped it on some brioche buns from the supermarket.

It will make a delicious breakfast with a nice cup of coffee in the morning.