Tiramisu Cupcakes

I've been itching to try these Tiramisu Cupcakes.

I know, I see many beautiful cupcakes in pictures online and these frankly, look crap! But I'm all about flavour, so if you can pipe and sprinkle shaved chocolate on these, crack on! 

I cooked some basic cupcakes, with buttermilk, cut a bit out of the middle, put in some reduced espresso to flavour the bottom, filled it with a mascarpone cream filling, popped the bit I cut out on top then dusted with cocoa powder. 

Basic Cupcake mix

125g self raising flour
125g caster sugar
120g margarine or butter
100ml buttermilk
2 eggs
1tsp baking powder
1tsp vanilla extract

Sift flour and mix with baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, mix in buttermilk.

Fold in Flour mix.

Filling

300ml double cream

125g mascarpone

75ml Coffee Liqueur, I had some Kahlua 

Tblsp of icing sugar

 

Whip the cream until it forms peaks. Stir in the mascarpone, liqueur and sugar.