Walnut Brownie Cupcakes
Walnut Brownie Cupcakes are rich, slightly gooey chocolate brownies, with a crunch of sweet toasted walnuts. They are easy to make and because they are cupcakes they are also very easy and much less messy to eat than traybake brownies.
Why make Walnuut Brownie Cupcakes?
Brownies are a rather special type of bake. It’s that soft gooey centre that is dense and fudgy, rich with chocolate and butter and totally indulgent. Walnut Brownie Cupcakes take that wonderful brownie texture and capture it within an individual cake. Add to that the crunch of walnuts and the soft velvety buttercream topping and they are sure to be a winner.
The basic cupcake mixture is the usual butter and sugar beaten together then, you add in the rest of the ingredients. Toasting the walnuts brings out all the nutty flavours and makes sure they are super-crunchy.
divide the mixture between paper muffin cups in a muffin tin and bake for 15 – 20 minutes. Test with a toothpick or skewer, they should still be a little bit sticky in the middle.
The Walnut Brownie Cupcakes are totally delicious just the way you are, or you can decorate them either with whipped cream or, as I did, with some piped buttercream.
Here’s the full recipe for the Walnut Brownie Cupcakes
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The book is dedicated to cupcakes and whoopie pies and contains lots of very tempting recipes some classic combinations like Butterfly Lemon Cupcakes and Double Chocolate Whoopie Pies. Then there are some more unusual flavours like Rhubarb Cheesecake cupcakes, Sticky pecan upside down cupcakes and Nutella Whoopie Pies. Then there are some really fun recipes like S’mores whoopie pies, Elvis Presley Cupcakes and Miss Piggy cupcakes!
I really liked that every few pages there was a page of tips, for example, tips about oven temperatures, or the story of the creation of Whoopie Pies. The photographs are stunning, both of the cupcakes and the many children who feature enjoying the cakes!
I decided to bake the Walnut Brownie Cupcakes, not only because they looked delicious but so I could enter them for this month’s Alphabakes challenge – letter “W”.
Bite-sized Walnut Brownie Cupcakes are fun too, just enough of a chocolate hit and perfect for a more sophisticated afternoon tea.
The recipe was easy to make, there was just one thing…the recipe says that it makes 12 cupcakes and I made 24 normal sized cupcakes and 10 mini cupcakes! Not that I’m complaining but if you didn’t have two cupcake tins you might find you had to bake this in two batches.
Alphabakes is run by Ros at The more than occasional baker and Caroline at Caroline Makes a
Walnut Brownie Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 200 grams walnuts
- 175 grams butter
- 150 grams light muscovado sugar
- 150 grams good quality cocoa powder I used 100g and found that quite enough
- 50 millilitres golden syrup
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 free range eggs
- 150 grams plain all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 100 grams dark chocolate
Instructions
- Turn the oven to 175℃
- Toast the whole walnuts in a hot and dry frying pan
- Whip the butter, sugar and muscovado sugar until creamy.
- Add the cocoa, syrup and salt.
- Whisk in one egg at a time.
- Mix the flour with the baking powder and sift it into the other ingredients.
- Coarsely chop the chocolate and add it and the whole walnuts to the batter.
- Set out paper cups in a muffin tin and fill the cups with two-thirds full with the mixture.
- Bake them in a middle of the oven for about 10-15 minutes. Test them with a toothpick, they should be a little sticky in the middle. Leave them to cool.
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Disclaimer: I was not required to write a positive review and any opinion expressed is my own.
Lemon
This looks delicious – my favourite cupcake – that I had recently was the Hummingbird bakery's black bottom cupcake- yummo!!
They look so good.
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I like lemon poppy seed 🙂
Red velvet
Chocolate with chocolate icing 🙂
SO LUSH Janice and SUCH a great entry for Tea Time Treats! THANKS for baking them for our cake stall! Karen xx
Strawberry
These look delicious! Thanks for entering them into alphabakes.
My favourite flavour has to be chocolate!
Ooh these little cupcakes look absolutely delicious. I always thought chocolate was my favourite cupcake flavour, but having recently made sticky toffee ones, I think it would be a tie!
Yup, has to be chocolate for me too! Love the sound of the Walnut Brownie Cupcakes.
Hi, I'm dropping by via Tea Time Treats. These sound really delicious. Walnuts and chocolate are a wonderful combination anytime.
Ooh they sound wonderful Janice and they look really pretty too. I'm always up for getting hold of a new baking book.
So far, I think white chocolate and matcha cupcakes have been my favourite – at least they were on that day anyway!
I love red velvet cupcakes 🙂
I love making apple cupcakes! They are simple spongecake based cupcakes with a teaspoon sized sunken centre of small cut apple bits, apple sauce, raisins and cinnamon (all mixed together). And to finish them off I put some cinnamon and applejuice (instead of water) with the icing sugar. YUM! 🙂
Ooh gosh that's hard to choose. The last one I had that was oh so scrummy was just simple old strawberry. Oh I want a cupcake now! x
I love plain old vanilla
I love chocolate cupcakes – it has to be dark and rich though.
Definitely chocolate!
raspberry!
Vanilla with lots of buttercream
Yum!!
Red Velvet!
I like Nigella's cappucino cupcakes at the moment.
Wow …. these look beautiful!
Fave flavour is red velvet. Nomnomnom
Sticky Toffee
Lemon!
Chocolate is my favourite but I could also be tempted with Lemon.
Beautiful cupcake brownies! Love the frosting on top too.
Lemon x
How did I miss these? They are so pretty. Feel free to bring some to the conference, hehe 🙂
How did I miss these too? They look gorgeous – thanks for entering AlphaBakes. The book look great too!
These look delicious, so nutty and sticky – right up my street!