Darjeeling Beetroot & Chocolate Buns
photo by The_TeaShed
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
10-12 cupcakes
ingredients
- 1 darjeeling tea bag
- 3 beetroots
- 120 g cocoa powder
- 220 g sugar
- 225 g butter
- 128 g flour
- 5 eggs, separated
- 1⁄4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 115 g butter, softened
- 310 g icing sugar
directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a bun tray with cupcake cases.
- Blend the beetroot in a food processor.
- Mix cocoa, tea and butter until smooth. When mixed well, add the egg yolks, blended beetroot and 3 tbsp strong brewed Rosie Lee Darjeeling.
- In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In another bowl whip the egg white with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in the sugar until it combines then fold in the chocolate-beetroot mixture. Once combined, fold the dry mixture until smooth.
- Spoon the batter into bun cases, put on a tray and bake for 30-40mins.
- Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating with buttercream. To make this cream the butter and icing sugar together until smooth then slowly beat in 3 tbsp of strong brewed Rosie Lee tea, a little at a time. Use a piping bag to pipe swirls of buttercream onto each bun and then you're finished!
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