Ancho Chili Devil's Food Cupcakes With Roasted Macadamias

Recipe Ingredients

		For The Cake
1 1/4 cups	78g / 2.8oz	Cake flour
1/2 cup	55g / 1.9oz	Unsweetened cocoa powder
3 tablespoons	45ml	Ancho chili powder
1 teaspoon	5ml	Baking soda
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
10 tablespoons	150ml	Unsalted butter at room temp
1 1/2 cups	297g / 10oz	Sugar
3 cups	594g / 20oz	Eggs (large)
1/2 cup	118ml	Buttermilk
1/2 cup	118ml	Hot dark coffee
1 teaspoon	5ml	Pure vanilla extract
		For The Topping
1/2 cup	73g / 2.6oz	Macadamias - lightly roasted whole or chopped
4 oz	113g	Semisweet chocolate - chopped
1/2 cup	118ml	Whipping cream

Recipe Instructions

Heat oven to 375F. Butter a 9" square cake pan, line the bottom with parchment or waxed paper and butter the paper. Measure out cake flour, cocoa, chili powder, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and cayenne. Sift them together 3 times.

Using an electric mixer with a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and continue beating until mixture is light, fluffy and almost tripled in volume.

Fold 1/3 dry mixture into the butter-egg mixture, then add 1/2 the buttermilk and 1/2 the coffee. Fold in another 1/3 of the dry mixture then the remaining buttermilk and coffee. Finish with the remaining dry mixture and the vanilla extract.  Spread the batter in the prepared pan.

Bake until cake springs back when touched lightly (30 - 35 min.). Then turn out of pan and leave on the rack until completely cool.  Use a 2-1/2 inch cookie cutter to cut rounds from the cake. Place the rounds in paper cupcake liners.

Make the topping: If the macadamias are raw, roast them in a 350 degree oven, turning once, until they just begin to color. Place the chopped chocolate in a bowl, heat the whipping cream until the point of a bowl and pour it over the chocolate. Let cool to warm then drizzle it over the cupcakes. Top with macadamia nuts.

Source:
Great Holiday Baking (Woman's Day Magazine)

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