Last week, I was having one of my irregular clear outs of our store cupboard and was about to throw out a bag of ground coffee. I brewed it up once but I’m not keen on flavoured hot beverages. Like I’ve said on many occasions I hate waste, so I thought I’d use the coffee to cook with instead of drinking. My coffee raspberry cupcakes with vanilla buttercream idea was born!
I whipped up a basic cupcake recipe; cream butter and sugar, add eggs and fold in the dry ingredients – self-raising flour and the chocolate and raspberry flavoured coffee grounds. In hindsight, I should have reground the coffee on the finest setting; the cupcakes were a little ‘gritty’ on the texture front.
Despite this, they had a wonderful flavour – I’ll be making them again!
I finished them off with a swirl of vanilla buttercream and topped each with a little raspberry – our garden is full of fruiting raspberry canes at the moment.
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- 140g/5oz golden caster sugar
- 140g/5oz butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 140g/5oz self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp fine ground coffee (or instant dissolved in 1tbsp boiling water)
- 150g/5¼oz butter, softened
- 150g/5¼oz icing sugar
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 12 fresh raspberries
- Heat oven to 175ºC/350ºF/Gas mark 4
- Line 12 holes in 2 muffin tins with cupcake cases
- Whisk the sugar and butter until light and creamy
- Beat in the eggs, one by one, adding a tablespoon of the flour at the same time (to avoid the mixture curdling)
- Fold in the rest of the flour along with the ground coffee
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases and bake for 15 minutes
- Carefully remove the cupcakes from the baking tins and allow them to cool on a wire rack
- Beat together the softened butter with the (pre-sifted) icing sugar
- Add the vanilla extract and mix in well
- Once the cupcakes have cooled completely, using a spatula spoon the buttercream into a piping bag and add a swirl to the top of each
- Gently push a raspberry into the top of the buttercream (and sprinkling with icing sugar if you like!)