These were absolutely delicious! To make them I adapted this muffin recipe, so that I got the wonderful taste of the brown sugar but a more “cup-cakey” texture.
Ingredients:
1 ¾ cups flour
½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
⅓ cup sugar
½ teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
⅔ cup milk
2 eggs
150g butter, melted and cooled slightly
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
10 “fun sized” Mars Bars
Method:
In a large bowl mix together the flour, sugars, baking powder and the salt.
In a separate bowl mix together the milk, eggs, butter and vanilla.
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the milk mixture. Stir to combine.
Spoon the batter into prepared muffin pans, filling the casings just over half way, place ½ a fun sized Mars bar in the centre of each and then cover the Mars bar chunk with a spoonful of mixture.
Bake at 180˚C for 15-20 minutes or until the tops bounce back when touched and a skewer can be removed cleanly.
To decorate ice with a cream cheese icing and ⅓ of a fun sized Mars bar.
Just scrummy! Enjoy :-)
Love the icing on the top - cute! I think I will have to make them once I am settled in at the new place - or... you could bring some around when you come for a visit!
ReplyDeleteThese look great... well done! Might make a batch today :)
ReplyDeletei was just wondering you mention salt in the method but in the list of ingredients salt isnt listed..just wonderign how much salt you put in there?
ReplyDeleteHi, apologies. I have updated the recipe now and the original recipe I adapted as they were both missing ½ a tsp of salt. I haven't made these cupcakes for about 10 months and am now craving them!
ReplyDeletei made some of these on the weekend and they are yumm, i am also going to attempt them with a pinky bar instead of the mars bar
ReplyDeleteGreat idea - glad you liked the recipe :)
DeleteWhen you say flour do you mean plain or self raising?
ReplyDeletePlain. If a recipe on our site says something like '1 cup flour' it means plain flour, we specify if it's something different like self raising.
DeleteThese were amazing! I used white chocolate icing instead of cream cheese and was yum!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed them Nicole! They have become one of the most popular recipes on the blog. I really should make these again, it has been too long :-)
DeleteI just made these for the first time-delicious!I might make them for the SPCA cupcake sale.
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The best Mars Bar cupcakes EVER... I prefer the vanilla cupcake base to the chocolate of other recipes. I used a chocolate vanilla butter cream icing only because I didn't have any cream cheese. It was still delicious!
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to freeze these before you ice them?
ReplyDeleteIf not - how long do they keep?
I'm making them for a party on Friday night. Can I bake them on Wednesday night!?
You can bake them whenever you like ;-) I am not a fan of freezing baking and always bake fresh but I can't see why you couldn't freeze them - although I personally have not done it.
DeleteOK thanks!
DeleteI'm new to New Zealand baking so these are sitting in my oven right now. So far they're looking good, but do you have any tips for avoiding the dreaded mountain peak when it comes to cupcakes?
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