![]() ![]() Pour into the dry ingredients, stir well with a wooden spoon, and then add the liquid ingredients from the jug, beating until it is well blended. In a heavy-based saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa and Coca-cola, heating it gently. ![]() Beat the egg, buttermilk and vanilla in in a measuring jug. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. So, if your batter fits perfectly in 12, I’d bank on it taking a few more minutes. Unsure if I make them smaller or if my muffin tin is smaller? Ok, “problem” isn’t really the right word.) However, she says it will make 12 cupcakes and it made 16 for me (An ongoing problem for me is I always end up with more cupcakes than the recipe specifies. I guessed at 15 minutes and when I checked them they were perfectly done. The original recipe is for a full cake and, although Nigella suggests you can make cupcakes, she doesn’t give a baking time. They certainly don’t taste like Coke, but it’s still charming to say that’s the not-so-secret ingredient. I was a little freaked out by how thin the batter was, but they bake up beautifully. Giant bubbles, that pretty much sums it up. Not only because of the odd mix of ingredients but also because the reaction between the cocoa and Coke was a bit hypnotic. No waiting.Īnd it was kind of fun to make these. For someone like me, who sometimes wants to make things relatively on impulse (read: impatient), this means I still can. One of the things I love about Nigella’s recipes are some of them call for simply melting the butter instead of waiting it to come to room temperature. It’s only one of about 12 recipes that have little tags marking them as “to-make,” so I guess I should get going on that. I can’t actually remember how or when I stumbled on this recipe in Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess, but I had marked it with a Post-it note at some point and then I think I just connected the dots later. I continued to feel guilt through much of Lent. She assured me that she had only given up drinking Coke and that she saw the humour in the cupcakes. Only after I brought them to her did I realize that maybe her giving up Coke for Lent probably meant any consumption of the cola and that in my effort to be funny I might actually be undoing her commitment. So, I thought it would be hilarious to make Coca-cola Cupcakes with Glaze for a friend. Yeah, I should probably join some sort of 12-step program for procrastinators. But I’ll give you a hint I made these for someone who had given up drinking coca-cola for Lent. I’m not going to tell you how exactly how long this has been sitting in the vault. ![]()
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