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Honey cupcake with mascarpone cream
Moist gingerbread-style cake perfect for winter.

Honey spiced cupcakes

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Cakes and Desserts
Honey is humanity's oldest sweetener, and behaves quite differently in baking than sugar. Since honey is highly hygroscopic (meaning it absorbs water from its environment), cakes made with it stay amazingly soft and moist for days, even a week. This recipe evokes gingerbread spices in a lighter, sponge-like form, with a mascarpone crown.
🕒 Prep Time 20 mins
🍳 Cook Time 20 mins
⌛ Total Time 50 mins
🍽️ Servings 12 servings
🔥 Calories 320 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Anglo-Saxon

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Muffin tray: With paper cases.
  • Mixer: For mixing.

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Milk
⚠️ Eggs

Instructions

1 ✓

Preheat the oven to 175°C (slightly lower heat due to honey).

Tip: Lower temperature prevents edges burning before centre is baked.
2 ✓

Beat butter until frothy with brown sugar, then drizzle in honey and continue beating.

Tip: Honey helps emulsify the fat.
3 ✓

Add eggs, then cinnamon and ginger.

Tip: Spice aroma compounds dissolve in fat, so add them now, not to flour [Essential oil solubility].
4 ✓

Fold in flour mixed with baking powder and milk alternately.

Tip: Due to acidic nature of honey, baking powder reacts immediately, so work fast and don't let batter stand.
5 ✓

Bake for 20-22 minutes. Skewer test necessary.

Tip: Honey batter can be heavier, denser than sugar batter, but shouldn't be raw.
6 ✓

Cool, then decorate with mascarpone whipped with cream.

Tip: You can add a little honey to the cream instead of sugar.

Recipe FAQ

Why did it brown so quickly?
Sugars in honey (fructose, glucose) start caramelising at much lower temperatures than granulated sugar. If browning too fast, reduce heat to 160°C.
Sticky top next day, why?
This is a property of honey: it absorbs water from air. This isn't a fault, it keeps it soft!

Ingredients

  • 200 g plain flour
  • 100 g honey (preferably artisan)
  • 80 g brown sugar
  • 100 g butter (soft)
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 100 ml milk
  • 5 g baking powder
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 0.5 tsp ground ginger
  • 150 g mascarpone (for cream)
  • 200 ml double cream (for cream)