Cupcakes with nut filling and chocolate

7. 10. 2025

Traditionally, this candy is spread with currant jam, but you can also try other types, such as apricot.

Ingredients:

Dough

220 g plain flour
140 g of butter
70 g of sugar
40 g ground walnuts
1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
zest and juice of half a lemon
a pinch of ground cinnamon

Filling

200 g ground walnuts
70 g of powdered sugar
50 ml of rum
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
currant jam

Cream

200 g of butter
70 ml of rum
50 g of cooking chocolate
5 tablespoons of sugar
2 eggs

Glaze

100 g of cooking chocolate
50 g of butter

Method:

Mix the flour, sugar, melted butter, ground nuts, cocoa, lemon zest and juice and ground cinnamon in a bowl.
Knead into a smooth dough, which you then press piece by piece into the cupcake moulds.
Place the molds in an oven preheated to 175 °C and bake for approximately 10-15 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the filling from nuts, sugar and rum.
Using a spoon, put a small amount of marmalade and then the nut filling into the baked and cooled cupcakes.
Make the chocolate cream by beating eggs with sugar in a water bath, then add their mixture to the beaten butter.
Finally, add the melted chocolate and rum.
Spray the cream on the cupcakes using a decorating tool and let it harden.
The final step is to dip the cupcakes in a coating made from cooking chocolate dissolved in fat.

Would you like to bake the cookies she remembers from her childhood from her grandmother this year? Get inspired by our recipes for forgotten Christmas cookies . You can look forward to sadlovky, gingerbread and Masaryk’s sweets.

Author of the article Milan & Ondra

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