Walnut cupcakes with chocolate coating

7. 10. 2025

The size of the cups depends on your personal preference. Smaller sweets are more beautiful to look at, but of course more laborious to prepare.

Ingredients:

Dough

• 400 g plain flour
• 250 g of butter
• 170 g of sugar
• 150 g ground walnuts
• 30 g of unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 egg
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• zest and juice of one lemon

Filling

• 300 g ground walnuts
• 100 g of powdered sugar
• 50 ml of rum
• 50 ml of milk
• currant jam

Chocolate cream

• 300 g of butter
• 150 g of powdered sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder

Chocolate topping

• 200 g of cooking chocolate
• 100 g of butter

Method:

1. Sift the flour, sugar and cocoa into a large bowl.
2. Add melted butter, ground nuts, lemon zest and juice and work into a dough.
3. Wrap the resulting dough in cling film and put it in the fridge for an hour.
4. Meanwhile, prepare the walnut filling.
5. Mix ground nuts, sugar, warm milk and rum in a bowl.
6. Use the dough to fill the cupcake molds and bake for 12-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 175°C.
7. In the meantime, prepare the chocolate cream.
8. Beat the eggs with the sugar over steam, then add the whipped butter and cocoa to the mixture.
9. Beat everything together into a smooth cream.
10. Spread a small amount of currant jam on the baked and cooled cupcakes.
11. Then add the nut filling and spread the chocolate cream on it using a garnish.
12. Place in the fridge to cool for two hours and then dip the cupcakes in the warm melted butter and chocolate frosting.

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