For the cupcakes
2oz soft bown sugar
8oz butter
8oz golden sugar
3 eggs
8 oz self-raising flour
Melt butter and syrup in saucepan (don’t boil), sift together the flour and sugar in mixing bowl. Beat in the cooled syrup and butter mixture, then mix in the beaten eggs. Pour the mixture into 12 large muffin cases
Bake at 180c for 35-40 mins
Icing
4oz softened butter
8oz icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Toffee topping
3oz double cream
2oz butter
4oz dark brown sugar
Melt cream, butter and sugar in pan and boil for five minutes. Beat the butter and icing sugar with the vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Add two tbsps of cooled topping and pipe onto cooled cupcakes. Pipe the rest of the toffee mixture onto the cakes, and decorate.
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