Recipe of the Week - Malva Pudding inspired Cupcakes

As we didn't post a recipe last Friday, here's an early one this week - these are the Malva pudding inspired cupcakes we made here in the Devnaa kitchen last week to kick off the world cup :)

Ingredients

1 Egg

1 cup of Caster Sugar

1 cup of Plain Flour

1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

1 cup of Milk

4 tsp Melted Butter

1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar

4 tblsp Apricot Jam

300 ml Whipping Cream

1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

80g Icing Sugar

Method

• Pre heat your oven to gas mark 6 and grease the cavities of a 12 hole muffin tray
• Cream the egg and caster sugar together for at least 8 minutes until thick, pale and fluffy
• Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl
• Mix half of the milk into the egg mixture followed by half of the flour and then the remaining milk followed by the remaining flour
• Mix in the butter, vinegar and 2 tblsp of the apricot jam
• Divide the batter evenly between each of the muffin holes (each one should be between two thirds to three quarters full)
• Bake for 30 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre of the puddings comes out clean
• Place the muffin tray on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes
• Run a palette knife around the edge of each pudding, turn out onto the wire rack and allow to cool completely
• Whip the cream until you reach soft peak consistency
• Fold in the vanilla extract and sifted icing sugar (add a little apricot colour if desired)
• Use your finger to poke a small hole into the top of each pudding and fill it with the remaining apricot jam
• Swirl the whipped cream on top.