Coffee and Nougat Cake

Happy Birthday to my Dad! :) 

xx

The Farmer is coming to visit us in Durbs today for a birthday lunch, so I decided to make him a birthday cake....given that he likes nougat, I thought i would be nice to top the cake with some chopped up pieces of Sally Hansens finest...although it has to be said that when the cake was finished it looked a lot more like it was topped with popcorn than it looked like it was topped with nougat....it was delish all the same!

Chocolate and Decadent Nougat Cupcakes

I'll be honest, it is not often that I feel the inclination to want to eat the cupcakes that I bake - most time my concern for my hips get ahead of me and I refrain.....not so with these ones!  Sally Williams may just have been my favourite person in the whole world when I made these cupcakes....her nougat is seriously to die for!

Vanilla cupcakes topped with chocolate icing and a piece of luxury nougat...it doesn't get much better than that my friends!

Rowan - happy birthday dude, hope you enjoyed the actual cupcakes as much as I enjoyed the toppings for them! :)

Condensed milk and nougat

These cupcakes were not made for any particular occasion, but seeing as though I keep getting requests to make white chocolate and strawberry cupcakes, I thought I better get cracking with some new flavour choices!

My idea was to combine condensed milk and nougat...bold choice I know, coz they are both so sweet. Either way, the experiment proceeded, and I added condensed milk to the cake part of the cupcake, and nougat to the icing. I then added marshmallow flowers to the top of each of the cupcakes - just to make them look pretty.

The results looked really good, but as for the taste - there were mixed feelings...some people loved it, and other people thought that it was a bit sweet and still preferred the plainer vanilla recipe.

My opinion - this is a great cupcake to have if you are only planning to have one. That said, I think those of you with sweet teeth out there will dig them.