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Hot cross bun cupcakes
Makes 12 cupcakes Cakes, Bread and Pastries
Ingredients
- 2 duck eggs or 3 large chicken eggs
- 90ml buttermilk
- 185g butter
- zest of 1 orange
- 185g self-raising flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 70g almond flour
- 185g light brown sugar
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 120g sultanas
- 1 tbsp apricot jam or marmalade
For the icing
- 60g cream cheese
- 40g butter
- 60g icing sugar
- zest of 1/2 orange
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/ Gas 4. Beat eggs in a bowl then add the buttermilk. Melt the butter, add to the bowl and mix well. Stir in orange zest. In another bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, almond flour, sugar and mixed spice, then fold these into the wet mixture. Stir in the sultanas.
Spoon the cake batter into the cake cases, about 3⁄4 full and bake for 18-20 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. Heat the apricot jam or marmalade in a saucepan with a dash of water until it becomes liquid. Using a pastry brush, glaze the cakes while they are still warm and then allow to cool.
Mix all the icing ingredients together. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag with a small plain nozzle and pipe a cross onto the top of each cake.
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