Cherry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- plus soaking
- Easy
- Makes 16
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- 400g tinned or preserved cherries in juice(make sure they are pitted)
- 100g dried sour cherrieschopped
- 250g buttersoftened
- 4 eggs
- 180g golden caster sugar
- 175g plain flour
- 75g ground almonds
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
FROSTING
- 150g buttersoftened
- 150g soft cheese
- icing sugar
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal435
- fat27.7g
- saturates15.6g
- carbs42.2g
- fibre1.1g
- protein4.8g
- salt0.6g
Method
step 1
Drain the cherry juice into a bowl, add the dried soured cherry pieces and leave them to soak for 30 minutes.
step 2
Roughly chop the tinned cherries reserving 8 whole ones.
step 3
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Beat the butter and sugar until they are light and uffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the our, almonds and baking powder.
step 4
Drain the soured cherry pieces (keeping the juice) and stir these in followed by the chopped tinned cherries.
step 5
Divide the mix between 16 muffin holes lined with muffin cases or squares of baking parchment. Bake for 25 minutes until they are risen and golden on top, then cool.
step 6
To make the frosting, put the remaining juice in a pan and bubble until you have thick syrup.
step 7
Beat the butter, then beat in the soft cheese until smooth, followed by the icing sugar (if it gets too warm at this point just chill it in the fridge until it thickens).
step 8
Spoon the frosting into a bag fitted with a star nozzle. Poke a skewer or skinny end of a spoon carefully down one side to make a trough and pour in the cherry syrup. Pipe the frosting onto the cakes in a swirl and finish the top of each with half a cherry.
