Macadamia Nut and Passionfruit Cupcakes

Using a basic cupcake recipe, the addition of tangy passionfruit and crunchy roasted macadamia nuts make these cupcakes special!

what you’ll need

Cupcake

125g SR flour

125g caster sugar

125g butter

2 eggs

2 passionfruit

1 cup roughly chopped macadamia nuts

Passionfruit butter cream

200g softened butter

3 cups icing sugar mixture

250g melted white chocolate

2 passionfruit

Method

Roast macadamia nuts in the oven at 180oC for 5—10 minutes or until golden. Cool.

Beat together, butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Beat for 3 minutes on a high speed, add passionfruit juice and beat for a further minute. Fold in half the chopped macadamia nuts.

Divide the mixture between 12 cupcake cases (mixture should roughly fill ³/₄ of the case).

Bake at 180oC for 15 to 20 minutes or until springy to the touch.

Let the cakes cool completely.

For the butter cream, beat butter until light and fluffy, then add icing sugar ¹/₄ cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Add cooled melted chocolate, beat till mixed through, then add passionfruit  and beat again until everything is well incorporated.  Liberally spread butter cream over cakes and dip into some of the roasted nuts. Pipe a swirl of buttercream on top. Serve.