Cupcake stuffed with a mixture of dried fruits and almonds

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients. If you don't like alcohol, then you don't need to add cognac. For flavor, you can optionally add orange or lemon zest.

2. Step 2:

   

   Beat soft butter with sugar.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a separate container, mix eggs, brandy and vanilla tincture, mix.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add the egg mixture in small portions to the butter, beating well each time. The mass should turn out to be very tender, creamy.

5. Step 5:

   

   We chop the peeled nuts (it is not necessary to peel).

6. Step 6:

   

   The dried fruit mixture is thoroughly washed and dried from excess moisture.

8. Step 7:

   

   Sift flour with baking powder and add to the butter-egg mixture.

9. Step 8:

   

   At the very end, we introduce nuts and dried fruits into the dough. Mix it up.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the dough in the prepared form. The shape should be small in diameter, I have 20 cm. If there is no small form, then bake in a form for portion cupcakes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake the cupcake at 160 C for about 50 minutes, check the readiness with a skewer. Let the finished cupcake cool down and preferably infuse, it becomes tastier the next day.

12. Step 11:

    

    Bon appetit!