Espresso Caramel Cupcakes with Chocolate Centre

Well, you have to forgive me...I have to put yet another chocolate coffee flavoured dessert. What can I do, my guys just love these aromas:) But I must add, this is a very tasty cupcake. Moist, with lovely coffee flavour, chocolate centre and tender vanilla caramel custard buttercream frosting. Though my husband does not like caramel, he did enjoy this frosting. it's not too intense, just a nice hint of it.
Cakes recipe is adapted from Dutch cooking magazine. Frosting is my own:)
Espresso Cupcakes with Chocolate Centre
125g sugar
125g sof butter
2 eggs
vanilla
125g AP flour
10g baking powder
3tb.s. milk
2t.s. espresso powder
12 spoons of nutella (I use melon ball scoop)
Preheat oven to 200C. Line cupcake forms with paper.
Beat together butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one by one. Then add vanilla and espresso with milk. Beat well, sift flour and baking powder.
Place one spoon of the batter into each cupcake form, top it with a scoop of Nutella and cover with one more spoon of batter.
Bake during 15 minutes.
Let them cool completely.

Vanilla Caramel Custard Buttercream Frosting
300ml milk
vanilla
2 egg yolks
2tb.s. flour
2tb.s. sugar
0,5 t.s. salt
200g soft butter
200g vanilla powdered sugar
2tb.s. caramel syrup
Heat 250ml milk in a small pan. Mix in a bowl egg yolks, flour, 2tb.s. sugar, vanilla and another 50ml milk. When the milk in pan starts to boil, take it off the heat, whisking all the time add yolk mixture and return to the heat. Whisk and wait until it thickens. Cool it completely.
Beat butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Add caramel syrup and spoon by spoon all the custard cream.
Pipe cream onto cupcakes and enjooooy!
Makes 12.