Coffee Muffins with Toffee Fudge Frosting

Last weekend's baking was impromptu because I didn't have the time to plan what to bake. We work so hard but yet are becoming poorer each day. A carton of Dutch Lady UHT milk used to cost RM4.50, now it's RM6.00! Johoreans earning SGD must be laughing all the way to the bank! Tough luck for the rest of us.

I was going through our cookery books collection to look for recipes to try out. I decided to try a coffee muffin recipe from Carol Pastor Best Ever Book of Cupcakes and Muffins since we have all the ingredients required. 

I got this book from Book Axcess quite sometime ago but only tried one recipe so far, I think it's the apricot yogurt muffins.

Ingredient
Cake
100 ml light cream (I used milk)
2 tsp instant coffee granules
1 tbsp roasted ground coffee
175g butter
175g brown sugar (Reduced to 150g)
2 eggs
100g spelt flour/ wholewheat flour (I used plain flour instead)
100g self-raising flour
[I added 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp baking soda]


Icing
75g butter
75g light muscovado sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp instant coffee granules
130g icing sugar
1 tsp lemon juice

Method
Cake
Beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until well-combined. 

Meanwhile, sift flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and coffee granules.

Add in eggs one at a time and continue to beat until light and creamy. 

Fold in liquid coffee, milk/cream and sifted flour mixture. Alternate between the liquid and dry ingredients and fold in gently until all the ingredients are combined.

Spoon into cupcake liners and bake in preheated oven at 170c for 30 minutes.

Icing
Melt butter,  sugar and golden syrup in a small saucepan, stirring occasionally. Dissolve coffee in 50ml hot water and add to pan (skipped this and ended up with undissolved granules in the icing). Allow butter mixture to cool.

Whisk icing sugar into the butter mixture until smooth and add lemon juice.

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Added a little surprise inside. After eating the cake you get a small square of chocolate.

It's Cadbury Old Jamaica Rum and Raisin. Putting the gifts I got to good use. This rum and raisin chocolate is just yum, yum, yum-mehh. Thanks to my bff who brought it all the way from Adelaide.

Hot cakes, right out of the oven. Look so plain. Time for the icing.

Scored! 

Although the recipe says makes 10 muffins, I got one extra muffin! Must be the self-added baking powder and baking soda. Could really use an extra muffin with the economy like this.

They look like cupcakes more than muffins. 
Don't like the tin foil liners at all. Somehow we have loads of those but don't want to them so I'll just use them. Don't judge if you see them making too many appearances in other cupcake or muffin posts.

My muffins look different from the ones in the book. How did their icing become so yellow?

The frosting doesn't taste like toffee fudge. Tasted like sour coffee. Coffee just doesn't go with lemon. Omit the lemon if you're trying this.

But the cake was yummy. It's soft, light and fluffy.

Happy baking! xx