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    Jun022010

    Coca-Cola Cupcake & Nigella Lawson

    coca-cola cupcake, vanilla swiss meringue buttercream frosting topped with coca-cola bubble sugar

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    It's been nine years since Nigella Lawson's "How to be a domestic goddess" hit the shelves, I thought it was time to revisit this classic baking volume that had us all seeking our own inner domestic goddess.  

    In my opinion this is best of all the Nigella books with a plethora of cake, biscuit (cookie), pie and chocolate recipes. Most aren't posh, we are talking comfort food here; banana bread, plum cake, sponge to loaf cakes, pancakes, pizza, breads, cheesecakes, tarts, jam & jellies are amongst the fabulous pages. 

    Yum, how about Lemon-Syrup Loaf cake or today's slightly bizarre Coca-Cola cupcakes... moist, light chocolate cakes that leave a little tingle on your tongue. 

    Coca-Cola Cake page 232

    I got 18 medium sized cupcakes from this batter.

    I did sift the bicarb (baking soda) and flour together before commencing.

    Ingredients

    200g (7oz) plain flour 

    *250g (8.8oz) golden caster sugar

    1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

    1/4 teaspoon salt

    1 large egg

    125ml (4.2 Fluid oz) buttermilk (or 30g/1oz yoghurt mixed with 100ml/3.3 Fluid oz of semi-skimmed milk) 

    1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    125g (4.4oz) unsalted butter

    2 tablespoons cocoa powder

    175ml (6 fluid oz) Coca-Cola

    Icing

    225g (8oz) icing sugar (confectioners sugar)

    2 tablespoons butter

    3 tablespoons of Coca-Cola

    1 tablespoon cocoa powder

    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (essence) 

    Method

    Preheat oven to 180C (350F)

    In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Beat the egg, buttermilk (or substitute) and vanilla together in a mixing jug. In a heavy saucepan melt the butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola, heating it gently. Pour onto the dry ingredients, stir well with a wooden spoon, and then add the liquid ingredients from the jug, beating until well blended. 

    Divide between your cupcake cases and bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

    Ice with Nigella's Coca-Cola icing (recipe below) or your own frosting of choice, try chocolate, vanilla or how about cherry for a cherry coke ;)

    Icing Method

    Sift the icing sugar and set aside. In a heavy based pan heat, add the butter, Coca-Cola & cocoa and stir over low heat until the butter has melted. Remove from heat and stir in the icing sugar beating as you go until you have a good spreadable, but still slightly runny icing. Ice cupcakes. 

    Now, just one point... this is a British book with British ingredients, my version is in metric if your looking for an American weights/measure version please read the Amazon reviews first as there seems to be varying opinions about how the book has been converted. 

    *Golden caster sugar is sold in Australia as Raw caster sugar... elsewhere you can replace the caster sugar for the same weight of white sugar or raw sugar for equally pleasing results.

    Want to make the white frosting? This is the same white chocolate vanilla swiss meringue butter cream frosting I used for the pink pocky stick cupcakes (below)... follow those instructions omitting the pink food colour and strawberry extract... instead add a few drops of white food colour. 

                  Frosting

     

    Happy Baking :)

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    Reader Comments (7)

    Wow these sound amazing. Coco cola? Who knew right? Love the look of this. Another high end cupcake from your kitchen.
    Beautiful as always.

    June 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHaniela

    wow mouthwatering! is it toffee on the top?

    June 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKaren (Possgirl)

    Thank you Haniela... such a compliment from such a gorgeous baker!!

    Hi Karen.... yes, it's toffee... "bubble sugar", hot toffee is poured over alcohol coated baking paper... the alcohol causes the holes/bubbles in the toffee. I reduced a can of coke to a concentrated syrup, added some of syrup to colour/flavour the toffee. I usually use vodka for bubble sugar but used white rum this time to go with cola. The toffee does taste strongly of whatever alcohol you use.

    June 3, 2010 | Registered CommenterThe Lone Baker

    I love Nigella's stuff and I'm definitely going to have a try at these. I'm having lots of trouble with chocolate cupcakes at the minute! The case comes away from the cake, it's really frustrating. Someone told me it is what happens when you use cocoa powder, another person told me to leave the cupcakes in the pan to cool, another said you should take them out immediately! Any suggestions?

    January 5, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterKate

    Hi Kate, oh, case fall fills me with dread!!

    Ok, it's nothing to do with cocoa powder... In chocolate cupcakes it's usually the higher fat content that can lead to case fall... definitely remove your cupcakes from the pan after a few minutes out of the oven. If you let them cool in the pan the cupcakes "sweat" the added moisture is another cause of case fall. Also the type of case your using, weather & how full you are filling cases can come into play.

    Check out the post I did on baking straight cupcakes for more information about case fall. http://www.thelonebaker.com/journal/2010/12/13/baking-straight-cupcakes.html

    January 6, 2011 | Registered CommenterThe Lone Baker

    Thanks for your help! I've been going slowly mad!! I will be trying chocolate ones this weekend - i feel a sense of dread and excitement coming over me!! Great blog by the way, I'm adding you to my daily reads!!

    January 6, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterKate

    This weekend I'll be thinking about your cupcakes Kate!! May all your cases stay on :)

    January 7, 2011 | Registered CommenterThe Lone Baker

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