White Chocolate and Walnut Fudge

Cupcakes don't have to be simple, in fact I am enjoying the process of seeing just how many flavours I can get into a single cupcake. This batch has chunks of walnut and white chocolate through a vanilla cupcake, with a butterscotch creme cheese frosting and a fudge covered walnut on top.

Ingredients

• 150 grams butter
• 100 grams sugar
• 2 eggs
• 150 grams self raising flour
• 1/2 cup white chocolate
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence/extract

Method

• Cream butter and sugar by softening over a water bath and whisking
• Add eggs and continue to whisk
• Stir through flour
• Mix in white chocolate and walnut chunks
• Bake in cupcake cases inside a muffin tin for about 22 - 25 minutes depending on the size
• Test they are cooked by poking with a skewer and checking it comes out clean

Frosting

• 100 grams cream cheese
• Butterscotch flavouring (oil if adding to chocolate)
• 100 grams white chocolate
• 25 grams of butter
• 1 cup icing sugar

• Whip butter and cream cheese from room temperature with a whisk. 
• Melt chocolate over a water bath
• Add a few drops of flavouring oil to the chocolate
• Mix chocolate into butter and cream cheese
• Mix in icing sugar until a smooth consistency to pipe from a bag
• If too hard, add some milk 1 teaspoon at a time

> Click here for the recipe for walnuts in fudge