Dried fruit christmas cupcake

6 servings
1 hour

Christmas is a wonderful fairytale celebration, full of miracles and pleasant surprises. Due to the established traditions, cupcake with dried fruits and nuts has become an integral attribute of this holiday. The aroma of this bake, spreading around the house, already creates an atmosphere of celebration and good mood. And such a cupcake is baked quite simply, the main thing is to make the dough correctly and choose the necessary ingredients.

How to bake a Christmas cupcake with dried fruits? Prepare the right ingredients for the cupcake on the list. Take the butter and chicken eggs out of the fridge beforehand to keep them at room temperature and the butter soft.

The standard set of dried fruit for this cupcake typically includes prunes, dried apricots and raisins. If desired, the composition can be changed. Rinse dried fruits well under running water, remove debris. Pour hot water over them in a bowl and leave for 15 minutes. Then drain the water. Cut prunes and dried apricots into small pieces.

Put the dried fruits back in a bowl and cover with a little cognac or rum. Leave for a couple of hours to soak.

In addition to walnuts, you can also use any others (peanuts, almonds), it turns out even tastier. Rinse the nuts well, dry in a microwave or dry pan and grind using a blender or rolling pin.

Transfer the butter to a bowl. Dice it, add the honey, pour in the sugar and mash them with a mixer or hand whisk until smooth.

Drive the chicken eggs into the bowl and whisk the mixture again with a mixer until smooth.

Add a pinch of vanillin or a quarter of a teaspoon of vanilla sugar. Pour in the sifted flour combined with the baking powder. Stir until thick and smooth pastry is obtained.

Put dried fruits with cognac, crushed nuts in a bowl with dough. Stir to spread evenly across the dough.

Line the cake baking tin with parchment greased with butter. Transfer the dough to the tin. From the middle, the dough must be parted to the sides, making a small groove so that after baking, the cupcake does not rise much in the center and does not crack.

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Bake the cupcake for about 40 minutes. Determine the baking temperature and time by your oven. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick, at the exit it must be dry. Let the muffin cool in the tin.

Remove the Christmas cupcake from the oven and serve when it has cooled completely. Merry Christmas!

Keep in mind that everyone has different ovens. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those indicated in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of the ovens!

Be prepared for the fact that flour may be needed more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!